 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 650 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly, as if beating against a resisting medium, and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 772 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of (he pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly as if beating against a resisting medium and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 764 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly as if beating against a resisting medium and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 766 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly as if beating against a resisting medium and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 768 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly as if beating against a resisting medium and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1898 - 414 pages
...probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures showed the tail of the comet streaming irregularly, as if beating against a resisting medium, and sharply...point it encountered a stronger current of resistance. All of these wonderful phenomena would have been unknown to astronomers had it not been for these photographs,... | |
 | 1902 - 230 pages
...wonderful beauty in the camera. The streaming tail of a comet is frequently doubled or trebled in length as it imprints itself upon the gelatin plate. Brooks's...affect the sensitive plate, but to which the eye is irresponsive.* More than once a word has been said about the unsuspected worth of the incidental; celestial... | |
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... medium, possibly a stream of meteors, such as we know exist in space. The long series of photographs obtained of this comet frequently showed great masses of cometary matter drifting away into space, probably to become meteor swarms. One of the pictures... 