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ben winsrtirt-sve Bo ye
andmyr, Broorlyn 1873,iwhen it
been retreating into the depths
'space ever, since its last preced
appearance' in 1835, it was at 1
brought up "with a round turn"
the sun's attraction 'and compel
to start back.
While every mile of the way
withdrawing from the sun's light a
*heat It had equally withd'rawn fr
its restraining' power, yet even 5(
000,000 miles beyond our farth
known planet that power was si
real, though immensely reduced, a
finally prevailed over the come
momentum so that It was forced
* turn back. It did it, like a runas
* child, reluctant1f, and, although w
- each mile of its return it has f
increase of attractionsin the sun a
* has t}.us been obliged to quicken
*pace steadiy, it has nevertheless:
fused to rush straight to the su:
bosom. Still retaining a fragm<
of that original momentum w
which it came into our system ai
ago-no one knows from where
* has persistently compounded ti
force with the force of the sun's
fraction, and the result is the hei
tiful curve of an ellipse.
Now, it is because of faithfully f
lowing the elliptical path thati
comet will n6t drop into the su:
fiery depths and go up in a puff
gas. Instead it swings around ti
body at a safe distance of 54,609,4
mi es at the nearest and then p:
ceeds to withdraw into space on t
opposite side of the ellipse. It
there that it is going to meet t
earth; there that it will ,pass1
the two bodies going in opposite
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ogl rections; there that It will come th
nearest; there that it will appear tb
largest; there that it will shine th
brighest; there that its head wiJ
D. transit the face of the sun; ther
r-that the earth will plunge headloni
rt through its tall. We are therefor
coming to the most Important dayl
of this cometary visit.
v So well had the great astronome
ar royal, ,Sir Edmund Halley, and oth
aers learned the ways of this sky mon
ster that Professor Max Wolf of Hei
gdelberg, Germany, knew to just wha
ast quarter of the heavens to open hil
by camera for the long exposure c
led Sept. 11 last. When, after hours c
waiting he again closed it and wen
into the dark room and developed hii
nplate he knew that he had rediscol
aered Halley's comet, and so he tele
a graphed to all the principal observa
0-tore of the world. In a few day
est the astronomers saw It in their pow
till erful glasses, and they have beel
nd following~ It ever since with an in
tsterval of a few weeks excepted, whel
to it passed the sun the last of Marc]
aand removed from the evening to th<
elt' morning sky.
nd ilNot Collide WIth the Earth.
its On the 19th 0f April the come
~e- passed "perihelion," nearest the sun
'swas going its swiftest, 1,878 miles
mnt minute, -and determinedly roundini
ith the curve to push on toward -thi
;es earth, as if to drive straight int<
-it our orb and end all things for bot]
iat bodies. At the same lime the eart]
at. was coming around its curve in thi
uopposite direction and almost si
eagerly rushing toward the comet
ol- its speed being about 1,150 miles
:e minute. And though the two, oi
,the 19th of April, were still 95,000,
of 000 miles apart, the combined move
atment of earth and comet has beet
00 steadily filling up the great gap ai
the rate of forty-three miles per sec
he ond, and the great events that are
ito follow the middle of May are con
he sequently at hand.
is, IThat there will be no ecollision is
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~may safely cross a surface road p(
above or a subway beneath. When er
the comet crossed the earth's path hi
} early in March-for It is even niow in
within our orbit-it was 15,000,000 n
-~ miles above us, and when it will It
pass out beyond the same, May 26, it of
will be 6,000,000 miles below us. ti
8Prof. W. H. Pickering estimates that'W
on the 18th of May -we shall be 14,- th1
300,000 miles distant from the comet. th
From these figures a million or two cl
1may be clipped in the day or two B
following. The brilliancy, too, of the of
Bcomet will. be greatest on thie 19th, e
no less than 6,966 times what it was cc
rwhen discovered by Professor Wolf. 'th
-But the 8th of May Is the great'pJ
-; day-the day of tJie transit and the 'al
-day of the earth's plunge throhgh the.
tcomet's tail. Nothing can \transit
the face of the mnoon unless it 'be a
f fleeting meteor, for the moon is the t
Snearest celestial body. Only three is
tbodies can transit the face ~of the m
sun-namely, the moon, thus causing to
-an, eclipse of the sun, and the inner!at
planets Mercury and Venus. The last la
transit of Mercury occurred In No- sh
Ivember, 1907. The last transit of!i
-Venus was observed December 6' th
1882, and .the next will be seen June en
8, 2004, this entire century passing th
without that most interes$ing and
significant phenomenon. But the g
Shead of the comet will tiansit the bo
face of the sun on the 18th of May. th
'Where the Transit May be Seen. b1
SThis is made possible by a remark, er
able combination of circumstances. w<
For four months the comet has been th
north of the sun. On the very day ge
that it passes it in going back from' at
the morning to the evening sky it on
also passes south of the sun. This sii
brings it directly across the 'sun's gr
face. Professor See says that this ed
will take place between 7 p. m. and Ax
S1 a. in., eastern time. Prof. Picker- in
ing namebs 9 p. m. eastern stime, as be
the hour. "Popular Astronomy" says all
that 11.19 p. in., eastern time, is the sP
exact middle of the transit, but thatm
it lasts in its entirety from 10.50 ga
p. mn. to 11.48 p. m. The centre of ]
the comet's head will pass about four: pe
vor five minutes of arc atove the cen-: of
tre of the sun's disk, the diameter sti
of the entire disk being thirty min- in
'utes. sw
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irtant as this event is, it will be
tirely invisible to a large part of
Lmanity by'reason of the sun's be
g below the horizon at the hour
Lined. France, England, Germany,
aly, Spain and all the eastern part
the United States will then be in B
.e shadow of night. Only on our
estern borders 'is there hope that We hav
.e transit may be witnessed, and inm
e Hawaiian Islands there is a much enofh
oser approach to certainty. Prof. nao
~rnard has estiinated that the size OneandR 1
the comet's head as seen from the,
.rth will be more than sufficient to I IOD
ver the sun's entire face. It would
erefore seem that a remarkable -Now is
tenomenon is 'at hand, _very closely lifetime to
>proaching an eclipse in character.
Mass of Meteorites in Its Head. for your f
So it would be if the comet's head hot summ
are solid, like the moon; but, ter than at
ough we are convinced that there
solid matter in it, being probablyan ex n
ade up of a mass of meteorites held
gether by their piutual attraction,
gel gaeous in it nature ad Fn o
all have to wait and see whether
be sufficiently opaque to darken, Al at PriC
e sun or whether it is so transpar
t that the sun can shine right
rough it as though a thin cloud. E1
With a telescope having an object
iss of fifteen Inches in diameter a mmmmm
dy of seventy miles in diameter at
a distance of the comet would show
wck against the sun, %nd with high
power one of ten miles diameter T. Y P E
uld do the same. But it may be
at those most favorably situated LOOK fc
ographically will see just nothing.
all. In all history there is but'Insist upOr
e recorded' case of a comet tran- excellent
ing the sun's face, that of the ti
eat comet of 1882. When it reach
the sun it disappeared entirely.
Ld it seems likely, therefore, that
the present instance the sun will Rememb
darkened but little, if at all. Yet
.comets are not alike, and some more but
ectacle altogether unsuspected more. IN
ty present itself to the admiring IT NOW.
ze of all beholders. J.WI
~arth, comet and sun being in one
rfectly straight line at the time Sout!
transit, were the comet's tail
aight the earth would be involved
it at the same moment since it
eeps back from the sun into space, NOW IS THE
matter which way the comet isj Tb THE HE
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