Popular Astronomy, Volume 50Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1942 |
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... direction of the Milky Way than in other directions . Herschel's conclusion , that " our nebula " is disk - shaped , is amply verified by modern studies . There are more stars in the southern galactic hemisphere than in the northern ...
... direction of the Milky Way than in other directions . Herschel's conclusion , that " our nebula " is disk - shaped , is amply verified by modern studies . There are more stars in the southern galactic hemisphere than in the northern ...
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... direction . Their average length is about sixty miles and they are four or five times as long as broad . This is in great contrast to the almost perfectly circular outlines of most craters . Their major axes are all nearly , but not ...
... direction . Their average length is about sixty miles and they are four or five times as long as broad . This is in great contrast to the almost perfectly circular outlines of most craters . Their major axes are all nearly , but not ...
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... direction slanting toward the horizon and burst , scattering small sparks in all directions ; only a white zigzag - shaped cloudlet sus- pended in the air was left of the phenomenon . " The height of the place where the meteor burst was ...
... direction slanting toward the horizon and burst , scattering small sparks in all directions ; only a white zigzag - shaped cloudlet sus- pended in the air was left of the phenomenon . " The height of the place where the meteor burst was ...
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Bolide observed A bright 451 | 114 |
STELLAR DISTANCES FREDERICK SLOCUM | 117 |
METEORITIC FOSSILS BEN HUR WILSON | 125 |
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