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THE ZODIACAL LIGHT AND AURORÆ.—On the supposition that the zodiacal light is an extension of the solar corona, and that the latter mainly consists of light reflected from meteoritic particles circling round the sun over the spot zones and parallel to the plane of the equator, Mr. M. A. Veeder explains (Rochester Academy of Sciences, January 26, 1891) why in middle latitudes the phenomenon is brightest in March and October, in the former case after sunset, and in the latter before sunrise, and also the fact that at these times one margin of the band is better defined than the other, and more exactly included within the plane of the ecliptic, whilst at other seasons there is decreasing brightness, and both edges become ill-defined.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 44, 631 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044631a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/044631a0