Comets and Meteors
by Daniel Kirkwood
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kirkwood, Daniel, 1814-1895
- Title
- Comets and Meteors Their phenomena in all ages; their mutual relations; and the theory of their origin.
- Credits
- Produced by sp1nd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Meteors
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41606
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41606
- Release Date
- December 11, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.COMETS AND METEORS: THEIR PHENOMENA IN ALL AGES; THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS; AND THE THEORY OF THEIR ORIGIN. — BY DANIEL KIRKWOOD, LL.D.,
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.I. COMETS. — CHAPTER I. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. — CHAPTER II. COMETS. — CHAPTER III. COMETS WHOSE ELEMENTS INDICATE PERIODICITY, BUT WHOSE RETURNS HAVE NOT BEEN RECOGNISED. — CHAPTER IV. OTHER REMARKABLE COMETS. — CHAPTER V. THE POSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OF COMETARY ORBITS. — CHAPTER VI. THE DISINTEGRATION OF COMETS.
- 5.II. METEORS. — CHAPTER VII. METEORIC STONES. — CHAPTER VIII. SHOOTING-STARS.—METEORS OF NOVEMBER 14. — CHAPTER IX. OTHER METEORIC STREAMS. — CHAPTER X. THE ORIGIN OF COMETS AND METEORS. — FOOTNOTES
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