Show COMET SURE IS GOING SOME Makes a Speed Record of 16 Miles a Second and No NoOne NoOne NoOne One to Hinder STAR SHOWER PREDICTED WANDERER KNOWN TO THE CHI CHINESE CHINESE CHINESE NESE CENTURIES AGO Those Thos who are able to find the little wanderer would now be disappointed due to the lack of tail tall with which the appearance of a comet Is always associated This lack is only apparent nt for with the large telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin E Eo EE EoE BE E Bernard has hs measured this appen appendage appendage appendage dage for a distance of several degrees calculating that it is miles mUes long at this time Judging from this calculation It H is thought that the comets tail tan will surely be miles long on May 18 and that the earth will pass through It This encounter has caused no little speculation on the part of sensational writers but conservative scientists are arc little worried Scientists are watching it with much Interest as an excellent opportunity Is afforded to determine of what a comet is made The earth will enter the tail tall at about 6 5 on the th afternoon of ofay May ay 18 IS according to Spokane time and will take about three hours to pass through It a distance of several hundred thousand miles The inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants tants of the eastern part of the United States will be unable to witness the Interesting phenomenon while those in this part of or the country will only be able to see the first portion of it The general opinion held by astronomers astronomers astronomers mers now Is that the only noticeable n effect will wUl be a brilliant sky glare and sunset with the possibility of a brilliant star shower much as was witnessed in November 1866 when shooting stars were counted by the millions on three consecutive nights The resultant velocity of the earth and the comet will be close to 30 or 35 miles a second and this plus the velocity of the surface of the earth turning on Its axis some 12 or 15 5 miles milesa a minute will give some idea of the speed with which the particles of o the comet will win encounter the earths at atmosphere atmosphere This great velocity would probably consume even the largest particles composing the largest com corn comets comets cornets ets ever seen Weight Comparatively Slight This hypothesis rests on the opinions and proofs represented as to the size of a comet It has been found from negative results that a comet weighs comparatively nothing as compared with the earth but even then a weight of tons would be taken as noth nothing nothing nothing ing It Is hoped that the near ap approach approach approach of comet to the earth will afford a method of weighing the wanderer such as has not been af afforded afforded afforded forded on the appearance of any of the larger comets known since the application application tion of modern modem mathematics to astron astronomy astronomy omy om The application of mathematics to astronomy brings up another interest interesting Interesting interesting ing phase of comet study With the aid of higher mathematics known as celestial mechanics it is possible from three known positions of a comet in its orbit to compute the orbit and deter determine determine determine mine whether the comet ever before visited the solar system and whether It will return With the aid of mathe mathematics mathematics matics it is possible to trace a comet through its entire orbit even when it itis itIs Itis is beyond the gaze of the largest vis cis visual visual ual or photographic telescope Known by Early Earl Chinese From a historical standpoint Hal leys leyh lev comet Is the most Interesting known own It has been traced back since the discovery of Its periodicity In by Edmund Halley for centuries and notes of It have been found In the Chinese annals before the time of Christ In the Bayeux tapestry of the battle of Hastings in 1066 the comet as an omen of good luck to the iIi iI Norman conquerors At other times this celebrated wan wanderer wanderer wanderer derer has been under the bans of the bulls issued by the popes at Rome If It it could tell Its own history and relate that which has happened on the earth it would be able to recount all of the great events for many hundreds of years According Ac to the most thor thorough thorough thorough ough research mathematically into its orbit it has been connected with the solar system for an indefinite period and there is little lIttie doubt entertained but that at one time it shone with much greater splendor than It now possesses for It seems likely that the material that goes to make up the tail tall leaves l aves the comet never to return In its trip the comet passes from the bright rays of the sun out Into space beyond the orbit of Nep Neptune Neptune Neptune tune the farthest known member of the solar system a distance Istance of nearly miles and again returns to the heat of ot the sun suna a heat far more intense than that known on the earth for it passes much closer the great luminary luminari ry and in all that distance ev cv every every ery cry mile mUe of its outward Journey and of Its return to the ken of man can be accounted for by mathematics m |