Deseret Evening News | 1899-12-30 | Page 2 | Forbids "Shooting Stars"

FORBIDS SJ SHOOTING rING STARS STAnS nut But Lovers Loers a Still be Dlud BUild to Me Meteors Claims I It I is hardly necessary to say ay that the tho tars are not stars at ni mill as the name seems to Indicate ld as people sometimes think This was the mistake of oC the sailor on I a British nal naval vessel elsel who had been set duro dur during Ing the or of 1866 to c count 11 all the ho could see In a given fifteen minutes minute When his time was as up he begged to be allowed a minute longer because said he I 1 has my eye on n a tar star that wiggles awful and cant hold on much longer are only lIttle masses I of at ot of rock or metal or I of dust duat ant amid are arc space Ipac Just juet Justas as Via planets nets and comets ao do In paths which within the limits of our solar system are by the attraction ton tion or of the SUI sum The They more with a speed of several mies miles a second far tur ox ex that of oC any military projectile but aro too small to ho be seen In 1 us except when they ther enter our atmosphere and becoming Intensely hent heated d bY y the resistance they timey encounter light up and burn for a a moment for to use uso Lord expression I a body rushing through the air at al such uch an enormous velocity Is during Is Its flight virtually Immersed tn in a flame hay has hayIng hasing Ing J a temperature comparable wih with that of at an electric arc arc As s a rule they are consumed In the upper air so that nothing reaches the sur surface face cf the earth except perhaps n a little Ish ash settling slowly 11 as an irn smoke Occasionally however seine mass larger thal than usual survives In part the ter fiery oreal ordeal and Is its fragments tal fall to the ground lS as specimens of oC the material or of other worlds than C A AYoung AYoung Young ember In time the New for tor No