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The 1st of December came, the fatal day, for if the projectile did not start that very evening at 10: 46: 40 p.m., more than eighteen years would elapse before the moon would present the same simultaneous conditions of zenith and perigee.
The weather was magnificent; notwithstanding the approach of winter the sun shone brightly and bathed in its radiance that earth which three of its inhabitants were about to leave for a new world.