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PROFESSOR F. ZÖLLNER alludes in the commencement of his paper read before the members of the “Kön. Sächs., Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften” to the epoch which Schiaparelli's discoveiy of the concordance of the orbits of some small comets with those of periodically returning showers of shooting stars has made in the astronomical world. He quotes an instance in proof of this, namely, Biela's Comet. On November 27, last year, the earth was crossing the exact spot in her orbit, which had been cut by Biela's Comet two and a half months before. Observers aware of the coming event were on the alert with their instruments, but no good results were obtained owing to the unfavourableness of the weather.
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Professor Zollner on the Connection Between Comets and Meteors . Nature 7, 468–469 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007468a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/007468a0