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14 The Solar System  

Schiaparelli attacked the orbit of the Perseids, or AugustAssociation of meteor-streams with comets. meteors, and to the astonishment of the scientific world brought out the surprising fact that they

Fig. III. Meteor Streams.

travelled in an orbit substantially coincident with that of the great comet of 1862, known as Tuttle's comet (1862 III.). About the same time, Leverrier published his orbit of the Leonids, and nearly