Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-11 | Page 1 | Tail of Comet Contains Carbon Monoxide

TAIL OF COMET CONTAINS CARBON CAR BON MONOXIDE Flagstaff Arizona rl ono June 11 Follow Following ing Ins Ma his hlf recent statement that astro Investigations Ions carried carded ared on lucre hero had developed hypotheses antagonistic to tho time former theory lh th the theor as ni tp Ip composition lion tion 01 of or cornels tall tails tal I Dr nr Percival Perchal Lowell heat of or Lowell observatory oh Is In Issued II sued IuNI a it supplemental bulletin last Int night In which he ho says 1 that carbon monoxide monoxide ide Id Is In one omie of the th strongest constituent In the thu appendage of Baileys wander wanderer er Cr Ho lie nays aa Lowell observatory by h Clipper Indicate that the tn ngot t hitherto unidentified spectral hands In tho the tall lal of ot lalI comet coincide le leIth with Ith time the spectral hands bands of or carbon monoxide found by b Fowler for that van gas under very r low 10 pressure In tho the laboratory Jut such a n condition cOIlton of low ow pressure must exist In a 1 tall talland tal end and therefore It I Is in by b these bands bunds bandl that carbon monoxide will 11 reveal Its 11 pres presence pr presence ence This spectrum of th the gas Ia Is I shown by II gentle electric discharges taking place under of about ono mine of ot an nn mm atmosphere