[205] He had caught a glimpse of it on December 7, but was prevented by bad weather from verifying his suspicion. Monat. Corr., vol. v., p. 171.
[206] Planetary fragments, hurled in any direction, and with any velocity short of that which would for ever release them from the solar sway, would continue to describe elliptic orbits round the sun, all passing through the scene of the explosion, and thus possessing a common line of intersection.
[207] Phil. Trans., vol. xcii., part ii., p. 228.
[208] Ibid., p. 218. In a letter to Von Zach of June 24, 1802, he speaks of Pallas as "almost incredibly small," and makes it only seventy English miles in diameter. Monat. Corr., vol. vi., pp. 89, 90.
[209] Olbers, Monat. Corr., vol. vi., p. 88.
[210] Conn. d. Tems for 1814, p. 218.
[211] Popular Astronomy, p. 327.
[212] Month. Not., vol. vii., p. 299; vol. viii., p. 1.
[213] Ibid., p. 146.
[214] Airy, Mem. R. A. S., vol. xvi., p. 386.