Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p074

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402 The Meteoric Procession of 1913 February 9 finds to amount to only a mile or so during the passage from Ontario to the equator. A chasing meteor captured by the earth’s attraction and turned into a satellite would revolve in a nearly plane orbit about the earth’s center, The trace of such a plane on the spheroidal earth would pass through points whose astronomical latitudes would differ from their geocentric latitudes determined by the trace of the plane on the celestial sphere. Computation...