Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 89
alled, are not visible in a normal condition,because of their minuteness. But on entering our at-mosphere they are rendered luminous, owing to theheat evolved by the sudden and violent compression 83 84 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. of the air in front of the moving body. According tothis… … METEOR EMERGING FROM BEHIND A CI^OUD (NOV. 23, 1877). showers may result from an encounter with a groupof these bodies, while aerolites are those which comeso far within the sphere of the earths attraction as tofall to its surface. More than two thousand years agothe Greeks venerated a famous stone…
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