 | DR. H. SCHELLEN - 1872 - 512 pages
...preserved by the nebula during its progress. Out of the original spherical nebula, quite unconnected with our solar system, a comet has been formed, which in...necessarily complete its orbit in less time than the more distent portions of the tail. The tail will therefore lag behind the nucleus in the course of the comet's... | |
 | Heinrich Schellen - 1872 - 724 pages
...period of years. From this it is evident tba: the orbits of comets may occur at every possible ang'e to that of the earth, and that their motion will be...comet is not a solid mass, but consists of particles *Mch possessing an independent motion, the head or nucleus nearer the sun must necessarily complete... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1874 - 130 pages
...orbit whose eccentricity and plane depend upon the initial circumstances. The comet is not, however, a solid mass, but consists of particles, each possessing an independent motion, and the comet becomes more elongated, and at last is resolved into a ring of meteors. In the course... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1895 - 144 pages
...orbit whose eccentricity and plane depend upon the initial circumstances. The comet is not, however, a solid mass, but consists of particles, each possessing an independent motion, and the comet becomes more elongated, and at last is resolved into a ring of meteors. In the course... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - 1883 - 556 pages
...successful observations and ingenious theories, of which Schellen gives the following account : — "As a comet is not a solid mass, but consists of particles each possessing an independent motion, the Lead or nucleus nearer the Sun must necessarily complete its orbit in less time than the more distant... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - 1887 - 862 pages
...successful observations and ingenious theories, of which Schellen gives the following account : — "As a comet is not a solid mass, but consists of particles ouch possessing an independent motion, the head or nucleus nearer the Sun must necessarily complete... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1895 - 150 pages
...orbit whose eccentricity and plane depend upon the initial circumstances. The comet is not, however, a solid mass, but consists of particles, each possessing an independent motion, and the comet becomes more elongated, and at last is resolved into a ring of meteors. In the course... | |
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... appears only once in our system, and then returns to wander in the realms of space; in the former case, it abides with us, and accomplishes its course round the sun, like the planets, in a certain fixed period of years. From this it is evident that... 