Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 95
rs of little meteorites, dragged fromtheir orbits and entangled in the earths atmosphere,like a fly caught in a spiders web, give their dyingflash, and vanish. It used to be supposed that the 9o STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. August and November meteorites belonged to onesingle system; but now… … THE GREAT SHOWER OF SHOOTING-STARS, NOVEMBER 27, 1872. and 1805, returned six and a half years later, in 1832.In fact it crossed, as we have seen, the plane of theterrestrial orbit at the respectable distance of fiftymillions of miles from the earth; but if there wasany danger in this meeting, it…
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