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Some theories flourish and some die quickly. In 1864 Sir John Herschel tried to link two fashionable astronomical topics, these being the meteor showers, seen periodically in the Earth's atmosphere, and solar spot activity. Lurking in the wings at that time was the impression that the solar luminosity was obtained from the kinetic energy of impacting meteorites. Herschel suggested that the Sun's...
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