Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1921
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1921natur.108..275l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 108, Issue 2713, pp. 275 (1921).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
WRITING with proper deference, I would ask astronomers whether it is not feasible to consider that the solar system may occasionally journey through a region of space occupied by exceedingly diffuse matter? Under such conditions the exceptional appearance of a large meteorite outside the earth's atmosphere might be possible; and some minute shortening of the period of a quickly revolving satellite, like the moon, might show itself by a cumulative advance of position. Contrariwise, if ever (say between 1865 and 1871) we passed through regions altogether free from even such evanescent friction, a readily affected comet, like Encke's, might temporarily recover from its usual perturbation.
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