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

CONTENTS.

	Page
Introduction	7
CHAPTER I.
The Meteors of November 12th–14th	13
CHAPTER II.
Other Meteoric Rings	26
CHAPTER III.
Aerolites	35
CHAPTER IV.
Conjectures in Regard to Meteoric Epochs	50
CHAPTER V.
Geographical Distribution of Meteoric Stones—Do Aerolitic Falls occur more frequently by Day than by Night?—Do Meteorites, Bolides, and the matter of ordinary Shooting-stars, coexist in the same Rings?	56
CHAPTER VI.
Phenomena supposed to be Meteoric—Meteoric Dust—Dark Days	65
CHAPTER VII.
Researches of Reichenbach—Theory of Meteors—Stability of the Solar System—Doctrine of a Resisting Medium	74
CHAPTER VIII.
Does the Number of Aerolitic Falls vary with the Earth's Distance from the Sun?—Relative Numbers observed in the Forenoon and Afternoon—Extent of the Atmosphere as indicated by Meteors	79
CHAPTER IX.
The Meteoric Theory of Solar Heat	84
CHAPTER X.
Will the Meteoric Theory account for the Phenomena of Variable and Temporary Stars?	92
CHAPTER XI.
The Lunar and Solar Theories of the Origin of Aerolites	96
CHAPTER XII.
The Rings of Saturn	102
CHAPTER XIII.
The Asteroid Ring between Mars and Jupiter	105
CHAPTER XIV.
Origin of Meteors—The Nebular Hypothesis	112
Appendix	123

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