| Show I I I I J TuB TIlE cOMET i i correspondent a short a ago o wrote to the c In what t E Hall m my now seen een witti nit an opera glaSs or orI I I 11 i It i not no 1 think k lit lit tho constella i tIon Pisces traveling f I us rel In Septem b r oct st lt It have passed 1 I Taurus between OrIon and amI the thet thep t thin midway An AnI p I and Wen then between P Pegasus and Cetus t z I ri ot states that us the co comet et to he be with small telo f I COPS one and the naked O eye C It shows ex exIt c s sI It I I to an astonishing i j and t and then thell equally u IS becoming dim f 1 nel flet r It ItI I I I quite mord than sIx ij I I times times Its former ss then r j j II It 51 sq quickly quiCk that the watcher could t believe bellec his yes ii i I Ii In this respect the tico astronomer 1 I 1 It I resembles hs as far less formIdable Iii t I comet of 1909 1903 t I i I 1 which illch like no a fire that Is hu hur hay hayt r t n fresh Cresh fuel Cuel shoveled upon It It I IIO is IO I e that there Is something In 1 ii US IS at the present time which produces these extraordinary ef efi i J r upon comets passing through it Il II If tiO so ma may make n a much II acore titan than i I a have 1011 hoped 1 II re It not for Cor clouds the comet comel I probably be visible now to the I j eye ee It Is the approach to the i I I uni that caUS causes 3 Its brightening and ami andi amiI I i 1 i t alli lI the tho appearance of the thet t I i through the lice repellant action of 1 ti 1 he hc solar olar radiation upon the aS that is 19 isI I I from the comets head as It its I I temperature Increases r I While the ultimate splendor of oC its ap I cannot connot be predicted Its con coni I il i J 1 II has ben beau such as to give J O d reason ceason to hope hone for a ma magnificent l 1 I act r the perihelion i e when It wll swing round be I n us and the thc sun 11 I Some have surmised that I t may have been en the famous Star Start t f Bethlehem which the lagl lot Coi Coil owed oed on their way a from Crom the eastern l II 1 leszt to the cradle of Christ In Pales I ine That strange phenomenon has hasI I Uso been hypothetically Identified with th ther r extraordinary celestial objects jI melt mch as Venus In her brightest p se i I I and the tho wonderfully new star In nela which appeared the tite last timo In inI 1 I I I I f In the Opinion of Prof Serviss II a Ii Oll Ct would certain certainly appear to fill 1111 i he bill better titan than either of these i lean In the western sIt sky with Its tall i forth like lil e the hand of a aI I I Iv nl augur It ml might ht bo be Laken b bi by i t i 11 traveling lIn from the tho east cast amid amidI I I the low horizons and Ind clear skies or of the 11 I i itS as a sign sent for fori i I q i hell guIdance ii I As AJ to the supposed danger from the possible colliding wIth the or rather passing passin through It ItI I this astronomer reiterates the scientific 1 H i that the of which It con Ii are arc so rare that In an any event no noI I anger Is apprehended from rota their I I I Into the atmosphere It I has been said b by some somo that there will willbe I i j I JI be a display of meteor produced b by bythe the tall but Professor I J I declares this to be with r i 1 chat hat we know about these phenomena I I f I Meteors ace aIe solid bodIes Inflamed b bI by byI I their wIL ru rush h through the tho I 1 i f I and nil all observations unite to toJ toI J I show that there Is nothing solid In the I I I tall of II a comet The Tho most that could i reasonably b be expected would ho be a plc ent slow glow In the sky f His clear explanation the coming j i I is as I Tile part of oC the sl Bley through which t II I i the comets path lies Is lined with 1 ome lome of the anti most t tul ul Taurus with the and the tho Pleiades ArIes I I nd PI lice Moreover the great planets t I blurs Murg and Ind Saturn are no now in that pact i pC Dr the and the comet will pass I Iose b by thorn them on Its westward Jour I nC fey It will be very vory cloe to Mars I nl nJ about Il a de degree ec south of Iton l I January 16 anti and on Januar January 29 S It wilt will I 1 pass Saturn about tour our on the tho l t e north If b by that time It hUll has devel developed JI II a tall Call 1 to the nuked naked eye ee j the spectacle will be an interesting one I I After the perihelion April 19 the tho II comet will gradually rom the tho j I I In the sky and then i I Its vay ay back Into the distant region rellon of oC oCt t 4 space Its aphelion point Ie Iea IJ t from Crom the sun will t IJ 4 lead It much nearer the earth than It was during ItEi ilE approach I I For two months It will approach the tho I earth round rounel he be beI I I twe tween n it Il and the sun Imn until on ml the t mornIng of Ma May 19 Il Ii will cross the I 1 plane piano ot of tho thc earths orbit Just Juet nt at the i Instant when the is 16 iq n a line I I with It and the suit Bun and Its tail wIll i I I possibly over oer us t I At that time the distance or of the head or of the tho comet front from the earth wilt will j I 1 I ho be 14 OOOO miles but the comets tall tail I should be 10 mleh longer than 14 i I I OOOo miles so that thai it mIss us J only In eaJe cace It happens to be directed I I N D little to t one side Ilde The j I II lations Indicate that It ma may miss mills us in III IIII f I that way vay I II The Los An Angeles I Examiner remarks remark I I about tills this interesting bitt nt no longer I exciting or phenomenon j J I that we know something of oC the truth 1 about comets and In n the tho beautiful I I I word wordS of oC the Bible the truth I I us fre front superstitions and from I W foolish dreads Universal education has hall treed the tho thoI i I J I i mind or of the tho children of today I 1 J as well Ill all those ot of adults adult fear I I the dungeon of the tho mind and has hasi 1 i J made mado the superstitious q dread of oC mankind which was once them thc I stock In trade or of designing or mIstaken persons who preyed upon the tho fears ot of people still more In the dIagram showIng of time tho orbit of comet reproduced In Inn n me number of the New It is that Its taU tall alwa always 11 turns turn II IO many from tho suit In Its rush to toward ward vard tho great luminary It comes comel henri ad On first t hut but In iii Its retreat It III i burled through space tall first It seems that a body having such Nuch a 11 rarefied d appendix could In such n a We Ve expect that the tail would trail behind whilo moving It cit such great speed Various theorIes been suggested as nip or of this taught that the matter of which comets UC aie composed was waR rem re I by the tho sun Nun lIe believed that thal light consists of latI les eject e I ell ed hOrn Ute Ole luminous bo body In nu all UI am and amI that these particles hit the dust grains In the tho comets and car carried ned ried them aa away with them Newton lid did not accept this explanation Ito thought that the thc refusal of the comete l to com comply pi with the law of gravitation tation and turn toward the suit Bun was only apparent He compared the tails of comet to smoke rising from a chum chumney In the tho ne ney The particles contained smoke moke ought to fall to time the ground but the they rise ho saId Into the air The Thc explanation nO pow accepted Is that the light waves wave exert a pressure upon time the comets strong enough to drive the thu lighter gaseous away from it and ann out Into space The some annie power of f time thE sun light Is inS Ing against the surface of the earth and other planets The total light rein the sun attic upon ulon the earth has been calculated to be so cant In comparison with the area of thu tho earth turned toward the sun that the marvel is that It could be com computed computed at nil all And this Is taken to irose that time tho tails or of comets consist of so flImsy material that time the atmos pher of the earth Is almost solid as to It ft Quite a few are expected this year ear if IC tho they keep the appointments made b by astronomers Among them are arc no imo less than thun three duo In October Another Is expected In January Januar next year |
