Meteoric astronomy: A treatise on shooting-stars, fire-balls, and aerolites

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Daniel Kirkwood

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

METEORIC ASTRONOMY. CHAPTER I. SHOOTING-STARS. I. The Meteors of November 12th (14)th.

CHAPTER II. OTHER METEORIC RINGS. II. The Meteors of August 6th (11)th.

CHAPTER III. AEROLITES.

CHAPTER IV. CONJECTURES IN REGARD TO METEORIC EPOCHS.

CHAPTER V. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF METEORIC STONES DO

CHAPTER VI. PHENOMENA SUPPOSED TO BE METEORIC METEORIC DUST DARK DAYS.

CHAPTER VII. FURTHER RESEARCHES OF REICHENBACH THEORY OF

CHAPTER VIII. DOES THE NUMBER OF AEROLITIC FALLS VARY WITH THE

CHAPTER IX. THE METEORIC THEORY OF SOLAR HEAT.

CHAPTER X. WILL THE METEORIC THEORY ACCOUNT FOR THE PHENOMENA OF VARIABLE AND TEMPORARY STARS?

CHAPTER XI. THE LUNAR AND SOLAR THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF AEROLITES.

CHAPTER XII. THE RINGS OF SATURN.

CHAPTER XIII. THE ASTEROID RING BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER.

CHAPTER XIV. ORIGIN OF METEORS THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS.

CONCLUSION.

APPENDIX. A. The Meteors of November 14th.

FOOTNOTES

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Transcriber's Notes

BY

DANIEL KIRKWOOD, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1867.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
DANIEL KIRKWOOD, LL.D.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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