A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 497
by Fig. 222. The fun-damental idea that thephenomena of the tem-porary stars may bedue to collisions is notnew. Newton long agobrought it out, and tosome extent discussedit; but considering theprobable diameters ofthe stars as comparedwith the distances be-tween them, it seemsimpossible that… … Via. 222. — The Collision Theory of Variable Stars. NUMBER AND DESIGNATION OF VARIABLE STARS. 485 are, in their present stage of development, not compact bodies, butonly pretty dense swarm of meteorites of considerable extent, eachsuch swarm being accompanied by another smaller one revolvingaround…
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