Show I Comets Fill Important I IRole IRole Role in iii Universe I II I Tho The ver very important part which comets comets com corn ets eti are now thought to play In till the machinery of oC the tho universe has been boon recently strikingly set forth by a number of ot scientists tho ho somewhat eccentric and sensational sensational sens- sens sensa sensa- tonal l French ench savant Insists that comets arc really accidental conglomerations of oC stellar stelar dust and that thoy they arc aro Invariably added to the thc mass mas of ot some big sun or planet as it f dashes daghe through space Tho TIme estimates recently made matl show how that every year ear tho the sun suit gathers up masses mases of or comets and small smal aerolites which far away exceed in total tot tho the earth or even several worlds tho the sizo of this one The Tho Importance of tl th la lais is that It adds enormously to tho the length of oC time Ome the tue sun can bo ho expected expect expect- ed to continue lo to warm tho earth carth with undiminished heat heal Tho The adding to the sun of oC suell such masses mases of or material which are drawn rawn to it Its Is flor fiery furnace by tile the force of or gravity sim simply means that the tho sun is almost self sustaining Ho lie picks up In iii other words front from the tho apparently inexhaustible sources of stellar space enough material to near nearly 1 offset what energy he lie burns hurns up In lighting nUng ls-nUng tho I planets of the earths earth's s system stem Occasionally undoubtedly l the tho earth I does docs the same thing But being so near the tho sun with wih its enormous enormously greater attractiveness limo tho earth only sets gets a a few low tiny particles of the star material that drifts through the orbit of or tho the sun un Jupiter and antl Saturn no flO 10 doubt obtain far fa greater amounts of oC this material than time the earth earth- The They are aN much farther off from front the tho sun and anda a a great eat deal bigger than the thc earth carth Comets themselves are ale considered as a formed in two ways ways first first by the time destruction of or great suns sun In space b by collisions secondly b by the drawing drawing draw draw- ing together of original star material The vast majority of comets comet never enter enter enter en- en en- en ter the earths earth's orbit or conic come come within eight Right of oC our strongest telescopes In sections of tile tho universe less Jess advanced than tutu tho the portion porton occupied b by our omo sun SUI and its is planets comets comet of 01 every kind and antl description are undoubtedly dashing dash dash- ing inS to tu an and fro b by the myriads and antl It ItIs ItIs I Is only now and th then n that one comes cornea info Inlo our planetary 8 system Thousands of them too small smal to be ie seen except wi with wih th powered high-powered telescopes annual annually I ly iy dash clah into tho fer fiery envelope of gas s surrounding tho the sun |