Show I NO NOT SO FAST AS ASI In the little article on Hallos cornel comet I which appeared In the th Now News on Mo Monday da the tho word million n appeared 0 I where It did not belong making the tho speed of that wanderer In space 31 nell mil million lion miles a second Although It was so stated In the magazine article from trem which the main facts concerning the tho comet were ore taken It Is needless to say aay that It is 18 nn an error Heavenly bodies do not travel at anything like that thal rate of speed The Tho earth trudges along at atthe the tho rate rato of oC IS 18 miles a anti the surface at tue tho equator revolves at the tho thoI rate ot of between 16 and 17 miles a 0 min nein ute or 1000 miles an hour Mercury travels travel 30 miles a second When M Paullean shall succeed In flying at that title ot of speed ho will bo be able to er ertho croas the tho Atlantic In two Venus tre vels veis 22 2 miles SI et second Jupiter Is slow Its speed Is hi eight mlles miles and a fraction over every second Saturn and Neptune are arc still slower The smelts famous comet of 1650 of which Newton calculated the orbit moved In nt at the tho rate rato of oC over 27 miles a second Light only travels at the rob of oC miles a second secondA A comet Is II supposed to be a cloud of world matter When hon acted upon by the powerful electric currents of the tho sun It sots sets ort off toward that both body but bul on nearing the sun It is 19 charged with tho Runs and therefore repel repelled repelled led according to the Lice law that like re pals like and attracts the tho opposite And so it Is started out again Into space where It gradually parts with Its Ita acquired form ot of anti Is at attracted attracted b by the sun surcharged arged and ex cx expelled polled itS as before Each time It ap approaches the tho sun lIun however It Is per perceptibly The smaller globes of oC matter unite and form larger ones and finally a 0 nucleus Is formed which increases In size and density Gradual Gradually ly Iy heat hent will be developed through the pressure toward the center and the tho comet settles down to II a period of planetary gestation comet has JIaS undergone great changes since first discovered I announcement binds them to the tho dent with hooks of oC steel j |