Popular Astronomy, Volume 50Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1942 |
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... Light of tHE NIGHT SKY BY C. T. ELVEY A review of the photometric , polarimetric , and spectrographic investi ... zodiacal light - meteoric particles illuminated by the sun C. In the terrestrial atmosphere 1. To the permanent ...
... Light of tHE NIGHT SKY BY C. T. ELVEY A review of the photometric , polarimetric , and spectrographic investi ... zodiacal light - meteoric particles illuminated by the sun C. In the terrestrial atmosphere 1. To the permanent ...
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... zodiacal light ( including the counterglow ) . Chapters 6-9 , pp . 87-205 , deal with meteors and meteorites , under the headings of " Shooting Stars , " " Meteor Showers , " " A Meteorite Falls , " and " Meteorites in the Laboratory ...
... zodiacal light ( including the counterglow ) . Chapters 6-9 , pp . 87-205 , deal with meteors and meteorites , under the headings of " Shooting Stars , " " Meteor Showers , " " A Meteorite Falls , " and " Meteorites in the Laboratory ...
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... zodiacal light , meteors , and aurora . Combined with the fact that the first four sentences of the book summarize the present " picture disclosed by astronomical discovery and investigation , " this method of approach gives a desirable ...
... zodiacal light , meteors , and aurora . Combined with the fact that the first four sentences of the book summarize the present " picture disclosed by astronomical discovery and investigation , " this method of approach gives a desirable ...
Contents
Bolide observed A bright 451 | 114 |
STELLAR DISTANCES FREDERICK SLOCUM | 117 |
METEORITIC FOSSILS BEN HUR WILSON | 125 |
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