Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — Curlon Ghostly Satellite. [ARTICLE]

Curlon Ghostly Satellite.

Under certain conditions there may be seen in the night sky, exactly opposite the place where the sun may then be, a faint light, rounded In outline, to which the name "gegenscheln” has been given. It has always been a mystery to astronomers, but Prof. Pickering has suggested that It may be a cometary or meteoric satellite of the earth. He thinks It may be composed of a cloud of meteors 1,000,000 miles from the earth and revolving around it In a period of Just one solar year, so that the sun and the ghostly satellite are always on opposite sides of the earth.