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come to the ground. The above calculation shows that the heat 
generated may be ample to vaporize or dissipate them. 
The shooting stars need not in general be large bodies. The 
give at over 100 miles distance as brilliant a light as a star of the 
first sepnitade. The estimates which are used as oH basis of 
culation are confessedly very vague, yet they show that a ve 
Small body may furnish as much light as a shooting star. Suc 
a body would naturally burn up without passing through the 
atmosphere, 
Tecan therefore see no reason, as some persons do, to make 
f meteors. 
loud report, and those of all degrees of brilliancy which are not 
Pin to explode, all seem to belong to one class, and to differ 
*meach other no more than substances on the earth. That 
Pa are solid and others aériform is not impossible.  Differ- 
‘aa es chemical constitution, size, velocity, and orbit exist, 
se May account for the variety of appearance. 
duty fé-—Since the above was in type, the meteor of J uly 20 seems to furnish better 
1 ice that meteors sometimes come from the stellar spaces. 
- SCL—SECOND SERIES, Vor. XXX, No. 89.—SEPT., 1860. 
