The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year ..., Volume 24Gray and Bowen, 1853 - Almanacs, American |
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... orbits computed . " Delambre in 1814 tabulated one hundred and seventeen.f Arago's list , which he referred to 1831 , ‡ contained one hundred and thirty- seven different orbits of comets . Mr. Hind has calculated the orbits of five or ...
... orbits computed . " Delambre in 1814 tabulated one hundred and seventeen.f Arago's list , which he referred to 1831 , ‡ contained one hundred and thirty- seven different orbits of comets . Mr. Hind has calculated the orbits of five or ...
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... orbit , its very short period of a little more than three years , and the speculations to which its premature return has led , are well known , and are recorded in other vol- umes of this Almanac . This comet came to its perihelion ...
... orbit , its very short period of a little more than three years , and the speculations to which its premature return has led , are well known , and are recorded in other vol- umes of this Almanac . This comet came to its perihelion ...
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... orbit was calculated by Gambart . Santini has given particular attention to it , and done for Biela's comet what Encke did for the comet which bears his name . its perihelion return , in 1832 , there was an intense popular apprehension ...
... orbit was calculated by Gambart . Santini has given particular attention to it , and done for Biela's comet what Encke did for the comet which bears his name . its perihelion return , in 1832 , there was an intense popular apprehension ...
Page 73
... orbits for the two parts , which differ even more in the time of revolution than those of the astronomer of Ge- neva . Mr. Herschel closes the case of this comet , in his Outlines , as fol- lows : " And it will be , therefore ...
... orbits for the two parts , which differ even more in the time of revolution than those of the astronomer of Ge- neva . Mr. Herschel closes the case of this comet , in his Outlines , as fol- lows : " And it will be , therefore ...
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... orbit in which the comet was moving in 1264 corre- sponded to a period of 302.922 ; that the orbit in which it moved in 1556 had a period of 308.169 ; that the perturbations suffered since that time will diminish the current period by ...
... orbit in which the comet was moving in 1264 corre- sponded to a period of 302.922 ; that the orbit in which it moved in 1556 had a period of 308.169 ; that the perturbations suffered since that time will diminish the current period by ...
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