Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-18 | Page 4 | No Danger from Comets

NO DANGER FROM COMETS. There waa a time when comets caused consternation even among the well Informed. When one of the large comets appeared twenty years ago, in certain parts of China the people made demonstrations at night to ward off the unwelcome visitor. In the old days fears were ez-, ez-, pressed of a collision of the earth and I a comet Astronomers have shown that moro than once the earth has passed through the tails of comets. Comets obey th same law as that which holds the earth In its orbit around the sun, and which causes the sun to move around some great central cen-tral force at present unknown to us