Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, Chicago, A. S. Barnes & company · leaf 309
eus. This point, which is called the ra-diant point, has caused the August meteors to be calledPerseids, and for a similar reason the November meteors,which radiate from a point in Leo, are called Leonids. It is inferred that the August meteors are due to a streamof meteorites of enormous extent… … Fig. 104. Orbit of the Augustmeteors. The orbit and the extent ofthis stream, which is shown inFig. 104, were investigated bySchiaparelli, who found that insome of its elements it wasclosely analogous to the thirdcomet of 1862, sometimes calledTuttles comet. The extent ofthis resemblance is shown…
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