The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . meteoric iron are scattered inconcentric distribution to a distance of nearly five of specimens of the iron have been collectedin the district, varying in weight from a fraction of anounce up to over half a ton, some of which becamepopularly famous because they contained minute frag-ments of diamond. The crater is a bowl-shaped hole some four thou-sand feet in diameter, and about six hundred feet indepth, whose walls rise about one hundred and fiftyfeet above the out
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . meteoric iron are scattered inconcentric distribution to a distance of nearly five of specimens of the iron have been collectedin the district, varying in weight from a fraction of anounce up to over half a ton, some of which becamepopularly famous because they contained minute frag-ments of diamond. The crater is a bowl-shaped hole some four thou-sand feet in diameter, and about six hundred feet indepth, whose walls rise about one hundred and fiftyfeet above the outlying plain, and is supposed by Bar-ringer, Merrill, and other observers, to have been formedby the impact of a mass of meteoric iron of enormousand hitherto unprecedented size, but which remainsas yet undiscovered. It has been conjectured thatthis monster meteorite had a probable diameter offive hundred feet, and was one of a flock of meteoritesthat formed the nucleus of a large comet, which possiblystruck the earth at this point, according to geological,indications, not more than five thousand years TIk Verkes 40-inch Kcfructor (The largest refracting telescope in the world. Its big lens weighs , and its mammoth tube, which is 62 feet long, weighs about 12,000pounds. The parts to be moved weigh 22 tons. The great 100-inch reflector of the Mount Wilson reflecting telescope—the largest reflecting instrument in the world—weighs nearly 9,000 pounds,and the moving parts of the telescope weigh about 100 tons. The new ^2-inch reflector at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory,near Victoria, B. C, weighs nearly pounds, and the moving partsabout 35 tons.) INDEX Aberration of light, 77, 247Achernar (a-ker-nar),in Eridanus, 198Adams, J. C, and Neptune, 279, 399 Aerolites, 416 ^sculapius, prophecy concerning, 97 Age of the earth, 310 Ahnighito, the Cape York me-teorite, 417 Albedo (al-be-do), or light-re-flecting power, 299 Albireo (al-bi-re-5),
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