A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 454
uch times they do not move without system ;but they all appear to diverge or radiate from one point in thesky ; that is, their paths produced backward all intersect at a commonpoint (or nearly so), which is called the radiant. As an old ladyexpressed it, in speaking of the meteoric shower of 1833,… … Fig. 210.— The Meteoric Radiant in Leo, Nov. 13, 1866. keeps its place among the stars unchanged, during the whole continu-ance of the shower, and the shower is named accordingly. Thus wehave the meteor shower of the Leonids, whose radiant is in theconstellation of Leo; similarly the Andromedes (or…
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