
Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 7
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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The Disruption of Comets
Many periodic comets it is now known have gradually been broken up and dissipated into periodic swarms of meteors. The Earth encounters a number of such swarms every year at certain definite times. They are named for the constellations in which their radiant lies, that is the point in the heavens from which they appear to radiate.
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