Deseret Evening News | 1902-11-08 | Page 4 | The Leonids Again

I t r D are again for Cor he Leonids that have hare I t wm for Cor the Jn last t three or tour years ellrA I IR R he Is the tho vanguard 11 if ethe the scott last year anti It Is IR correct tile the ho body y of II 1 t may rl come vIew nv tItle this l eat eal The delay Is explained b by another 1 namely that the 1 as IJ been affected by some somo ot of the thee e C planets that have hao delayed It Iti i d captured some somo ot of Itt Ita com coin I 1 parts The lh e dl dIsplay amy there ro bo be meagre but ILIA IL Is supposed tj 4 will como come on the nIght ot o t No Nov 14 ho be visible especially toward the tho theia ia rt rl lla dawn ot of N Nov 0 16 It Is that tha t tIn n In nil probability would lIe be worth watching till re rem m o the sky the tho littler hiller Vart parI ot of the tho just mentioned are Interesting t cause much or of their history Is sup supa a to be 00 known The comet that to t b been n to toJi dust coins Into our solar Molar Ji stem it Is h believed about tho year o P JI ot of our era when lum It was waR a attracted the planet Uranus Its cour course e eI I Into an ellIpse Since Iaco then i line has come Into Inlo view about oer every rd id year flirt Its ha has bl been en c fi with b by JupIter anti Sat Sst 11 anti It has hils b cn torn asun asunder er anti along Its courso courI so 10 t It ft no longer any semblance or of 1 a inet hiet Several times the appearance has been belli materially I and the tho delay elny ot at this time I Is I I not flat unexpected It If ohl comet does not appear nt at nil all nilI I must conclude that lint It has hns ben loen b planets and t Its itA dust dut w t rests 01 tho ho surfaces ut oC other 1 enl wanderers I here Is something grand In the that tim tho dIfferent ot of nc are not utter nil alt from rom one another r b by chums chasms that thing hIn ran can but that there In Int InI t I itt III communication t nil as there Is 13 on OIl earth the tho that conti its ScIence tells tell us that II a mass of I may be one or of the It starS m and 1 III Into space so 80 that It does doeR not return but pursues Such IUchi none nena It is III thought hOe hc n Il HiJ i tl our own sun lIun A mass ot of titus sent whirling through space 1 r como nar l our sun Hun to bu J lured b by lI Its attraction Its ree 1 50 m ma further bl b Influenced 11 by the list Jilt It then becom s a comet The Tho teL t Is 11 ull sally apart nm and from fromme me the met meteors or mall many lit at Which fall the tio surface of the orol the And thus It will be bc seen n that those o comets h these meteors are r all rein tar far away word they thoy tiring bring Influence they exercIse hat A forms torm of at life liCe what heWer fr Ir health or II anti nd o OCa cn Ca In their waits elIte must he left to 10 future flint there tholo is III communication ant lunt worlds Is the great Grent fact of oC which science Is InOW nOW cognizant