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... meteor showers , and remarkable conjunc- tions of the planets , as well as plagues and famines , floods and droughts , wars and the deaths of great rulers . Sometimes they thought they could trace con- nections which might lead them to ...
... meteor showers , and remarkable conjunc- tions of the planets , as well as plagues and famines , floods and droughts , wars and the deaths of great rulers . Sometimes they thought they could trace con- nections which might lead them to ...
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... meteor shower is the result . A magnificent meteor shower was seen in America on November 12th - 13th , 1833 , when the paths of the meteors all seemed to radiate from a point in the THE PHYSICAL PERIOD 123.
... meteor shower is the result . A magnificent meteor shower was seen in America on November 12th - 13th , 1833 , when the paths of the meteors all seemed to radiate from a point in the THE PHYSICAL PERIOD 123.
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... meteor stream to be retrograde . The radiant had almost the exact longitude of the point towards which the earth was moving . This proved that the meteor cluster was at perihelion . The period being known , the eccentricity of the orbit ...
... meteor stream to be retrograde . The radiant had almost the exact longitude of the point towards which the earth was moving . This proved that the meteor cluster was at perihelion . The period being known , the eccentricity of the orbit ...
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... meteor shower ( Leonids ) ; and Peters , of Altona , iden- tified these with Oppolzer's elements for Tempel's comet 1866 - Schiaparelli having independently attained both of these results . Subsequently Weiss , of Vienna , identified ...
... meteor shower ( Leonids ) ; and Peters , of Altona , iden- tified these with Oppolzer's elements for Tempel's comet 1866 - Schiaparelli having independently attained both of these results . Subsequently Weiss , of Vienna , identified ...
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... meteor in our atmosphere , leaving a luminous train behind it . It almost disappeared , and on April 26th it was of the sixteenth magnitude ; but on August 17th it brightened to the tenth , showing the principal nebular band in 1R ...
... meteor in our atmosphere , leaving a luminous train behind it . It almost disappeared , and on April 26th it was of the sixteenth magnitude ; but on August 17th it brightened to the tenth , showing the principal nebular band in 1R ...
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