A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 426
Fig. 202.A Comets Tail as a Hollow Cone. 729. Curvature of the Tail.—The cone is curved as shown,because the particles repelled still retain their original orbital motion,so that they will not be arranged along a straight line drawn from … A Comets Tail at Different Points in its Orbit near Perihelion. the sun through the comet, but along a curve convex to the direction,of the comets motion ; but the stronger the repulsion, the less willbe the curvature. Fig. 203 shows how the tail ought to lie as the 1 Referring to the formula for…
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