Chapter 5
To the two above letters registered and forwarded, under triple seal, to the head astronomers of Pittsburg and Cincinnati Observatories, the reply would be a simple acknowledgment, and a statement to the effect that they would be duly docketed. The senders asked no more. Both counted on soon having a second view of the bolide. They refused to admit that the asteroid might have rushed far enough away into the depths of the sky to escape the earth’s attraction, and that it might never become visible again to the sublunary world. No. Subject to well-determined laws, it would come again within the Whaston horizon. They would be able to perceive it as it passed, to draw attention to it, to calculate its co-ordinates; and it would figure in astronomical charts bearing the glorious nam
