Popular Astronomy, Volume 50Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1942 |
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... novae have been recorded in it , and published data are at hand for only three of them . The first two12 were caught at undetermined stages of ... novae in Sagittarius and Scorpius are distributed within 240 The Luminosities of Novae.
... novae have been recorded in it , and published data are at hand for only three of them . The first two12 were caught at undetermined stages of ... novae in Sagittarius and Scorpius are distributed within 240 The Luminosities of Novae.
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... novae also should be revised a little , but considering the forms of their curves , we cannot correct them more than 0.3 . Ac- cordingly , we adopt 16.9 for 11 slow novae and 15.1 for 43 fast ones in the Andromeda spiral . In the ...
... novae also should be revised a little , but considering the forms of their curves , we cannot correct them more than 0.3 . Ac- cordingly , we adopt 16.9 for 11 slow novae and 15.1 for 43 fast ones in the Andromeda spiral . In the ...
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... novae . In other words , the method fails by just about the same factor for both . From the second column we get the mean of three fast novae , - 9M7 , and the mean of two slow ones , -7.3 . This gives another value of a difference ...
... novae . In other words , the method fails by just about the same factor for both . From the second column we get the mean of three fast novae , - 9M7 , and the mean of two slow ones , -7.3 . This gives another value of a difference ...
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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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