Deseret Evening News | 1910-01-31 | Page 4 | Halley's Comet

COMET COIET comet which is now nearing the earths orbit with inconceIvable speed will come quite near our globe in tho spring But the prospect Is not nol considered alarming According to the schedule the tho comet will pass round the sun on the tho side the tho earth In the latter end endor or of March WhIle In that thal part or of SIJ space O OIl it Il will be invisible to us Then It will reappear On April 20 it Il have havo reached the tho point nearest the sun It will then be 00 traveling at the tho rote rate ot of I 3 34 million miles a second On May Ia 18 It Is expected to pass between the earth carth and the tho sun SUIl and be only I miles distant tram from us At that time Its tail It Is supposed may sweep the earth This how ver Is not thought to bo be dangerous Earth Inhabitants may many perhaps notice a yellowish tint In the atmosphere such luch as was seen In 1861 when It lYM thought we were elo passing through a L comets tail But who can cantell tell what no new forms of lIfe lite germs may maybe maybe be carried Clunet In the tho dust dusl or of the comet from other othel parts or of space pace Who ho can tell whether some seine of them may not bo be transferred to our nL at 0 can toll tell whether I through lie tho visit of at tIm tho wanderers In space pace dIseases mn may not be transplanted from one olle world system to another Who ho con can tell whether these thero wonderful stars that appear and disappear an that sometimes surfer suffer shIpwreck and are r to rag ments are not the tho ferries and tenders through which some kind of oC communication communication cation Is kept up between the worlds I that seems ems to be 00 separated b by nn Im impassable I passable gulf gUlt