METEORS 
can subject to 
4H 
our observations. 
^hich 
iQj' admit the existence of a particular aerial fluid 
regions of luminous meteors, felling stars, 
Aurora Borealis, how can we conceive why 
of those fluids does not at once take fire, 
sk Saseons emanations, like the clouds, occupy only 
V' fern' can we suppose an electrical explosion 
0'^ Un ''apours collected together, capable of con- 
charges of electricity, in air, the mean 
w'* Of tj ® which is, perhaps, 25° below the freezing 
V . is '^^tttigrade thermometer, and the rarefaction ot 
Considerable, that the compression of the 
could scarcely disengage any heat? These 
in great part, be removed, if the direction 
'vitjj falling stars allowed us to consider them as 
ij “ *olid nucleus, as cosmic phenomena (belonging 
'' ' limits of our atmosphere) and not as 
^ ornena (belonging to our planet only) . 
that the meteors of Cumana were only at 
''ll 5 *'*®teoi-g "’^'tch falling stars in general move, the 
le 
*'^Ur to incandescence must have reigned 
ff'erp November, in the higher regions of the 
i| ‘tliSi P furnished, during four hours, myriads 
''V'J'tl falling stars, visible at the equator, in Green- 
*kiv 'O k "'etc seen above the horizon in places more 
iv‘“ary di®, distant from each other. Now, what an 
j Germany. 
V3y 
\S 
V ’ judiciously observes, that the sarae 
" V fit® phenomenon more frequent, has 
of °tt the largeness of the meteors, and the 
'y f Ireate lu Europe, the nights when there 
■ number of felling stars, are those in which 
8s are mixed with very small ones. The 
^'tch phenomenon augments the interest 
I'Hj . f®' Ehere are months, in which M. Brandes 
"t our 
t:'C'?ht 
iV 
m, 
r temperate zone, only sixty or eighty 
1 to night ; and in otlier raontlis their numbet 
tli^, thousand. Whenever one is observed, 
*■ hr Sirius or of Jupiter, we are sure 
'bet meteor succeeded by a great number 
'‘be ujP®’’®-. If the falling stars be very frequent 
Sht, it k very probable tl»st this frequency 
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