Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — Meteors From the Moon. [ARTICLE]

Meteors From the Moon.

Taking up an old theory of meteors, Emile Belot, French astronomer, has attempted to demonstrate that these bodies may have resulted from volcanic eruptions on the moon and other satellites of the solar system’s planets. He finds that an initial velocity of projection comparable to that which has been observed in the eruption of Cotopaxi and only twice as great as that developed in artillery of the present war would be sufficient to carry a body free from the moon and he has made calculations of the speed of projection and other conditions that would cause such a body to become a satellite of the moon, of the earth, or of the sum. _