The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeJ.N. Parker and son, 1852 - 184 oldal |
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... nearly six months . That discovered by Colla , in May , 1847 , was also followed till its distance from the earth was three - and - a - quarter times the distance of our globe from the sun , and another found in the same year by Mauvais ...
... nearly six months . That discovered by Colla , in May , 1847 , was also followed till its distance from the earth was three - and - a - quarter times the distance of our globe from the sun , and another found in the same year by Mauvais ...
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... bodies being small , its apparent position may scarcely change in the course of the day , and if it be advancing towards the earth , the same , or nearly the same place in the heavens , may be preserved for many weeks 6 THE COMETS .
... bodies being small , its apparent position may scarcely change in the course of the day , and if it be advancing towards the earth , the same , or nearly the same place in the heavens , may be preserved for many weeks 6 THE COMETS .
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... nearly every case , of a roundish and more or less condensed mass of nebulous matter , termed the head , from which issues , in a direction opposite to that nf the sun , a train of a lighter kind of nebulosity , called the tail ...
... nearly every case , of a roundish and more or less condensed mass of nebulous matter , termed the head , from which issues , in a direction opposite to that nf the sun , a train of a lighter kind of nebulosity , called the tail ...
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... nearly 5 ° . In some few instances where more than one tail has been observed , the second has extended towards the sun , as was the case with a comet discovered in October , 1851. That which appeared in January , 1824 , exhibited two ...
... nearly 5 ° . In some few instances where more than one tail has been observed , the second has extended towards the sun , as was the case with a comet discovered in October , 1851. That which appeared in January , 1824 , exhibited two ...
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... nearly all the historians of the time , was remarkable for the length of its tail on April 10th it extended 50 ° from the head , and was divided near the extremity into two branches ; next day its length was 60 ° , but only one ray was ...
... nearly all the historians of the time , was remarkable for the length of its tail on April 10th it extended 50 ° from the head , and was divided near the extremity into two branches ; next day its length was 60 ° , but only one ray was ...
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amongst the stars Aphelion appearance April arrival at perihelion astronomers August Author axis Berlin Biela bodies Bouvard bright Brorsen Burckhardt calculated Cambridge century Chinese observations Clausen Collegio Romano comet discovered comet observed Comet of Encke comet of Halley comet was observed computed constellation D'Arrest December detected diameter Discovered by Pons earth elements epoch exhibited February Gambart grand comet Greenwich Mean Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hevelius Hind History identity Isle of Bourbon January John Herschel July June Jupiter Königsberg Laugier length Lexell March Marseilles Mechain miles month motion naked eye nebulosity November nucleus numbers observatory observed in Europe Octavo October Olbers Ophiuchus parabolic Paris path perihelion distance perihelion passage period of revolution periodical comet perturbations Peter Apian Pingré planetary probable Professor Encke remarkable comet right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico
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