meteor swarm
Americannoun
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According to Sir Norman Lockyer's meteoritic hypothesis, a vast nebulous region was invaded, not by one but by many meteor swarms, under conditions such that the effects of collision varied greatly in intensity.
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If it were set back in its orbit by ten months' motion, it would be a part of the meteor swarm.
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The meteor swarms are supposed by some astronomers to be fragments of a disrupted planet, which, according to Bode's Law, should occupy this space.
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The Leonids were henceforth deemed to hold an anomalous position among meteor swarms.
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Mr. Lockyer supposes the clash of meteor swarms to have produced new stars, and suggests the possibility of stellar or planetary bodies coming into collision, though no observations ever made yet give an example.
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