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These intarited in muitters astronomicul"ure eagerly awaiting that anal i Halley's Canet. "Thas been sighted by Professor Wolf," of the Rezigetabl Observatory as Feidelberg, # Greenwich and Cambridge, and photogange of it have already is taken. The period of its greatest trillinese will be towards the end of seat May, when is will be within about ten million miles of the earth. It will then be visible to the naked eye. Our dingrum shows the path of the comet in its relation to the earth's orbit. It should be noted that the points in the diagram where it enters cad leaves the earth's orbit are act really in nearest approaches to the earth, although they appear to be so. The ecmet's position on May 10 shown in the diagram is the point DAWN BY W. B. ROBINHCH FROM A SETCH BY W. F. DESSING, FRA-S.. Fox The Illustrated London Norm
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THE COMING COMET.
the marbh'and solvater
By an Astronomer.
Hillay Comet ans now come within range of satrymomfort photography the course of a few weeks it will be: spiunous shject in our beavers... This comat takes about seven
In which to travel it sil pla path around the sun. Halley, who was snoond Astro nomer Ryal fat traced. Ita orbit and set forth the time taken to zaverso it and that under arcumstances ennstituting one I of the most interesting chapters in astro-
nomical anuals, TV
Sir Isaac Newton, having nob forth the law of gravitation and demonstrated that by its operation the planets mora around the sun in elliptic paths, set himself to explain the motions of commets. A giant comet appearing in 1680, he avalled him salf of all the obsurations made of that body, and of other similar bodies recorded In earlier times, and calculated this comet's path, showing that it moved in long lilpaa. At the same time be aboved that
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[WHAT DORETS "ANE" SEADE OFE The spectram shows that comete consist of hydrocarbons. Now the heat, to which comnts are exposed it the time of perlhation must be beyond all human conception, Newton calculated that the 1680, "curat. actually grazed the sun's surface, coming within half a million miles of ita contro and that its temperature must have been 2,000 times that of red-hob. iron. In the same way the temperature of the comné of 1843 mine have been rained, to a heat in which the most infusible nub- stances of earth would have been vaporia ed. Accordingly, in a comet approaches the sun the hydrocarbons break up into free carbon; and an there is no air and
it was possible nah only for a body to wor this free carbon cannot burn into gas, it
in a path of ellip le form, but also slong exists in the form of incandescent particles
a parabolic curre, In other words, that exista
-it might come from an infinite distance on of an infinitesimal size. These particles
cbo one side, pans round the focas, and are so fine that the mechanical pressure of prisa uff to an infuite distance on the other the mir light (a forse only moently under side, and so never return. Thus sants stood), far exceeding the sun's gravitative comets move in a alused path and some in pall, repels the cometary matter, sad so
forms the tall, anton
Such is the mechanical pressure of light
su open one.
Halley then set himself to gather all the reliable records of auch someta ss had been arefully observed and to apply to them
that a particle of cometary matter of one half the weight which sunlight can balance
the Netonian theory. The result was would travel at the rate of 808,000 miles what he set forth the paths of some twenty-Fan hour. Of course, the fact must not be four of these heavenly bodios.
overlooked that the comet is not passing through an atmosphere. The scheric medium is Imponderable and there is nothing to sweep the tail in the direction
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· In 1682 a large comet appeared, and Halley at once investigated its phenomena and inquired in'o its history. To so doing of mution. Understanding these things he found it to be very similar, both in sp-we ire no longer surprised that Nation's | should be sent before 11 am, on the day after pearance and in the orhit slang which it comet in 1680 should have emitted. In two biloution. After that hour the' supply is Gravelled, to a comst which had appeared days tail 20,000,000 leagues in length-mited. Cash 10 ds. Credit 30 ato., - par in 1807, and to austher which had P. Accordingly, the matter of the tail is con poared in 1591. It therefore somed to tinually boing drawn from the nucleus so Alterations and additions to Advertčasmani
aim probable that them three cometa
m Fazda 1, 3, 6 and 7, should be ment, in the sure ong and the amo body. This long as the comet remains sufficianti negles, No. 8, Wyndham Street, mis later than 11 hypothesis be tested in every way at his to the sun; and, belog finally disipated, omand, and, assured in his own mind. to that extent the cometary bulk is les
Alterations, and addiliane të Adverbiamento te predicted-its roturit about the yes, 1758-ned. May we not, than, say that everyon pages 1, 4 and 5 should be tri na sai latar
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Knowing that be himself would have passed return to the sum marks a definite abbre way long before that time, he wrote:ation of a comet's lifa?. This mode of "Wherofors if it should reture, secording formation at once explains how it is that our prediction, about the year. 1758 comet's tail is always turned away from impartial posterity will not retune to set the sun, flowing behind the nucleus as the owl dgo that this was first discovered by comet approaches the sun, then syringing o Englishman"! On Christmas Eve, 178, clear. round and streaming before as the the cumet was detected, and pas ed the comet recommences its retorn journey inte san'at its nearest at midnight of the 12th those depths of space out of which it of March. No wonder the name of this camo.
meat astronomer. has been given to this It will they be seen that whatever may mmat. It appearid again in 1833, and is st this very time rushing once more inte visibility.
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be the weight of the comet's nucleus, which seem to be made up of lamp of solid | Let it not be supposed that the calcain substances held loosely together," an "a tion of a comet's path is at all an easy shoal, ani kabject to vaporisation by the saatter. It is not simply a question of the actin of the sun's beat, he weight of the attractive power of the sun. Many other tall is altogether inappreciable. The com considerations have to be taken into se sequence is that while a comet's motion count - As a comet passes through the may be seriously affected by planetary at solar system it is exposed to attractive traction, the planets themselves are ab forces on every sida. Taka this comet.solutely unaffected by cometa. In spite of It journeys beyond Jupiter and Satara the existenes of hundreds of threads of Find Uranus almost to the orbit of Nep cometary bodies travelling in all directions, une. Halley failed to take there disturb most of them invisible to the naked eye, ng iifuences into due acasunt. But so they are the causes of no planetary distur the time for the comet's return drew near bance. In this we have a guarantee for ather astronomers carefully recomputed the stability of the solar system. she path, ad, possessing improved mo Thode, made due allowances for the attrac viva forece exercized by the planets Jupitar and Saturn. Olairant estimated that tha somet would be retarded by Jupiter 518- lays, and by Saturn 100 days, and fxod
for next year's representations of the called the perihelion, about the middle of Oberammergau Passion Play, which takes April 1759. This calculation was only s place every ten years. The building
It is roticeable tEnt this be the same as in 1900, and the per play month oat. astronomer stated that as a comet travelled base, will accommodate 400) persona. A as far into space it might be subject to committon has selected the following disturbances from some places tos remste plagera: Director of the flaps. Ms Ludwig Lanz, who managed the Passion Play in 1900; Stage Manager and Herod, Mr Han Mager, who formerly personated There are many records of the appear Jeans Christ; Prologue Reciter, Mr Inton shce of this com One of these was in | Lechner; Loader of the Chorus, Mr Jakob B.C. 12, in the reign of the great Augustas, Ratz, Christ, Mr. Anton Lang, Tho in other was in A. D. 68, shortly before the 1900 perennsted the Saviour; John, Mr lestruction of Jorusstem, and was regarded Albrecht Birling Peter, Mr. Andress as a grava portant. It was very conspicuous | Lanz, who in 1900 arfed the Rabbi; Judas,, is in the reign of Jusi lan, A.D. 331. Mr. Johann Zwink Chiaphan, Mr Gregor. The Bayeux tapestry preserves a quint Breitmunter; Annae, Mr Sebastian Lang i representation of Its appearance in 1968, Plate, Mr Sebastian Bauber; Nathaniel the year of the battle of Hastings, when it M. Ruprecht Breitmamter : Mary, Mim alled the minds of the people with super. Otilie Zwick; Mary Ma dalena, Miss titious dread.
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