This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... great shower of meteors, it is recorded, in the year 902 A.D., the shower being associated with the death of a Moorish king. There was a shower in November 1799, observed by Humboldt in South America, and there were also great showers in 1833 and 1866. Thus, on an average, there is a shower of November ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... great shower of meteors, it is recorded, in the year 902 A.D., the shower being associated with the death of a Moorish king. There was a shower in November 1799, observed by Humboldt in South America, and there were also great showers in 1833 and 1866. Thus, on an average, there is a shower of November meteors every thirty-three years. After the meteors of 1833 it was observed that all the little bodies fell from one portion of the sky, the constellation Leo, thus gaining the name of the "Leonida" In 1864 the late Professor H. A Newton, an American astronomer, having records of meteoric showers every thirty-three years, predicted a great shower on the night of November 13 and morning of November 14, 1866. The prediction was fulfilled; and finally, Adams, one of the discoverers of Neptune, proved by mathematical calculation that the Leonids revolve round the Sun in an elliptical orbit in thirty-three years. The Earth crosses the meteoric orbit every year, and a few meteors are seen in November, but it is every thirtythree years that our planet crosses the great cluster. A meteoric shower was predicted for 1899 or 1900, but, strange to say, it did not take place. There were slight showers in 1901 and 1904, but they were by no means striking; and the general idea is that either the main shoal of meteors has become disintegrated or else it has been attracted off its path by planetary influences. Soon after the shower of 1866 it was found independently by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, and an American observer, Dr C. F. W. Peters, that a comet moved in the same orbit as the Leonids. In fact, the Leonid meteors are merely the remains of the breaking-up comet. There is a famous shower of meteors in August, known as the...
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