Show COMET IN IM WESTERN SKY since monday e elling from 6 30 to 70 a comet has been visible in ili the west with its long tall of light the stranger has caused excitement and tuesday neaily acry cry person one met asked the question did you see the comet one authority says that the heavenly visitor is only miles aiom the earth not such a great distance yet quite it a ways prof fred rick rack of the university who is a student of heavenly bodies has this to say of the comet the comet which last night was so plainly visible a tev few degrees above the lio horizon lizon has tentatively been called comet A 1910 within a very short time its identification will be completed but jut just at present it has not definitely been placed 1 it has baa existed in ili nearly its present position for several days past and nill continue several days to come it can best be observed from the east or north benches where tile the view is not obstructed by the smoke of the city this is not Hal Il alleys leys comet which is scheduled to appear early in april so far as we have learned comets appear to be composed of swarms of meteors the greater part of the light which they emit is reflected light and the nearer they approach to the sun the more golden the light they emit comets appear to revolve around tile the fun in nery deiy much the same manner mander as do the planets except that their orbits are much more eccentric they even approach to within very short distances of the sun and then ell alost recede to remote positions posidio S most of them have been observed observe dand and reported at regular intervals although the distance or of miny many of tile the comets from the earth even in their nearest positions is measured at millions of miles and in their farthest positions at thousands of millions et in ill their maximum distance they are arc scarcely the thousandth part of the distance to the nearest star |