Popular Astronomy, Volume 51Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1943 |
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... important to preserve the principal mass intact until other and larger specimens of the same type are collected . Final proof of the meteoritic origin of so unusual a type could not rest on com- position , anyway . I myself have long ...
... important to preserve the principal mass intact until other and larger specimens of the same type are collected . Final proof of the meteoritic origin of so unusual a type could not rest on com- position , anyway . I myself have long ...
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... important question connected with a knowledge of the stars ' masses , or with the unraveling of a star's evolu- tion , or with the understanding of the dynamical properties of the galaxy . But it is very easy to forget these ultimate ...
... important question connected with a knowledge of the stars ' masses , or with the unraveling of a star's evolu- tion , or with the understanding of the dynamical properties of the galaxy . But it is very easy to forget these ultimate ...
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... important to make a rapid qualitative survey and probe into other stars than to give exact measurements of a phenomenon , the importance , or even the relevance , of which is as yet unknown . In this respect the work of a stellar ...
... important to make a rapid qualitative survey and probe into other stars than to give exact measurements of a phenomenon , the importance , or even the relevance , of which is as yet unknown . In this respect the work of a stellar ...
Contents
Frontispiece Plate 1 The Moon | 9 |
The Moon Wm W Payne | 16 |
Concerted Observation of the Aurora M A Veeder | 22 |
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