Show NCI eve ese EIS comet M the tho famous fainor aekes come comp comets is 13 coming again reir 1 0 11 davisi davis U S uhe the united ed gle gie states slates s naval navai observatory at washington has hay made a alport to the navy department relative to observations of henckels Enc kees kels comet 1 li he heays ays ass that hat since january a ry every available opportunity has bag been bali used to look for that p 4 visitant the comet being miles from the sun and consequently also very distant f ilfe earth art arl ba toe too celestial stian stran acco ger could iid tid A not 0 A V be seen seeri through gia gla the he ordinary or d 1 n ary art instruments of the ab ob serva berva atory torin JRe Recourse course was therefore had to the 26 inch equatorial ilie iho ille comet was first seen by prof professor esser holden and paymaster tuttle U S the tho nighton night of january 26 it was their extremely faint with BO no nut nucleus leus anid arid with n no 0 well defined boundary it will vill probably be beitko faint observe to tol with the ordinary Aust i instruments for some week this comet cogniet is supposed to have by If Me echain chain in 1786 by t caroline hersehll herschel in 1795 and by pons rons of marseilles in 1805 but was positively by pons rons in 1818 and identified by encke a as a periodical cometta comet tb same year its orbit is within bun bur our solar sy steni within ithe the orbit or of jupiter and its period ofa of U revolution Is ls a little more moro than 11 1 three y pars ears and aud a quarter and duie decreasing asin g about two aud and a half hoier h ours s e each a ch revolution the decrease being ascribed by al eucke cice clie to the prep es ence euce of hr a resisting medium tb though 0 ug Herschel and athers ascribed cibek the Oc decrease rease to the gradual loss s of the comers tall tail a cause accelerate the motions 0 af f othier creatures than comets the thel glea gica greatest test distance distan pe of this comet arp is four times that of the thib ea earh rp and its least distance that of the earth |