Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 81
? Icall them so simply because many of them are visitors.Some, it is true, belong to the Solar System. But 76 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. even in their case, strong donbts are felt whether theywere not once visitors from a distance, caught in thefirst instance by the attraction of one of the… … PASSAGE OF THE EARTH AND THE MOON THROUGH THE TAII, OF A COMET. varies with different comets. There are, first, thosecomets which travel round and round the sun inclosed orbits—that is, in a ring with joined ends.Only the ring is always oval, not round. There are,secondly, those which travel in an…
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