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... meteors , and falling stars all seem to have a common origin . They are produced by small bodies - planets in miniature - which are revolving , like our earth , about the sun . Their or- bits intersect the orbit of the earth , and if at ...
... meteors , and falling stars all seem to have a common origin . They are produced by small bodies - planets in miniature - which are revolving , like our earth , about the sun . Their or- bits intersect the orbit of the earth , and if at ...
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... meteors . The cinders of the portion consumed rain down on us as fine meteoric dust . METEORIC RINGS . - These little bodies , it is thought , do not generally revolve individually about the sun , but myriads of them are collected in ...
... meteors . The cinders of the portion consumed rain down on us as fine meteoric dust . METEORIC RINGS . - These little bodies , it is thought , do not generally revolve individually about the sun , but myriads of them are collected in ...
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... METEORS AND COMETS . - The orbit of the November shower is found to be almost identical with that of the comet of 1866 ; while the August stream is in the track of ... meteors coming between the sun and earth METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS . 205.
... METEORS AND COMETS . - The orbit of the November shower is found to be almost identical with that of the comet of 1866 ; while the August stream is in the track of ... meteors coming between the sun and earth METEORS AND SHOOTING STARS . 205.
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Joel Dorman Steele. or ring of meteors coming between the sun and earth . HEIGHT . - Herschel estimates the average height of shooting stars above the earth at 73 miles at their appearance and 52 at their disappearance . WEIGHT . - Prof ...
Joel Dorman Steele. or ring of meteors coming between the sun and earth . HEIGHT . - Herschel estimates the average height of shooting stars above the earth at 73 miles at their appearance and 52 at their disappearance . WEIGHT . - Prof ...
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... meteorites . These may be attracted , and so picked up , one by one , by the larger in succession , until they form another moon , which will continue to revolve about the planet as the ring does now . Fig . 90 . 0 CELESTIAL CHEMISTRY ...
... meteorites . These may be attracted , and so picked up , one by one , by the larger in succession , until they form another moon , which will continue to revolve about the planet as the ring does now . Fig . 90 . 0 CELESTIAL CHEMISTRY ...
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