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100 The Solar System  
FIG. XIII. JUPITER'S FAMILY OF COMETS.
FIG. XIII. JUPITER'S FAMILY OF COMETS.
extended the idea; but to Professor H. A. Newton we owe the most important research in the matter. In two striking memoirs (1878 and 1893), he showed that Jupiter was quite capable of such capture; but he started with the assumption that
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