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Entd of the Worid^-Conmet Revihres Fear?Impressive Sigkts
Have Been Seen at Times?Dairager of Colliding WMh aNefeula
PltOr. AVTL__IA..I II. PICICEHIXC.
(IV .JOH.V BLFnETII WATICIXS.
Terror to thousands of Innoccnts
will result from the 111-adviscd "an
nounccmcnt thnt Halley's comet?
through whose tall we wlll shortly
pptss?contalns cyanogen gas and hy
drogen, a combination possibly fatal
to- anlmal llfe. Already tho prophets
of, the nature faker school are at
work descrihlnjr very graphlcally how
the human race may bo totally exter
minateri hy asphyxiatlon on May 18.
Nothing. Iirs plagui-l. manklnd ao
perslPtently ns thls fear of tho end of
the world". hnd from' eftrllost tlmes
criers of the final calamlty have been
dlvlded between those believlng that
flre and thoso bellevlng that deliiRe
would externilnate manklnd. More re?
cently thc prevulllng_ notlon of sclcnco
has been tha't cold and'tironght would
grndually elimlnatc our race.
The belief that flre wlll put an end
to our'cdrthly Hlstory has been most
popular because of the blbllcnl au
thorlty thcrcfor, and of tho varlous
nstronomical phenomena considered as
likely to literally set the world on flre,
for thc -final holoeaust comets havo al
?ways been looked upon as the llkell
cst. This dread used to be shared even
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_y men of science, who belleved wlth
Iho populace that the heads of comets
iverc great stars, lncandosccnt like our
sun, and that their tails wero vast
??lazes of fire, streaklng the heaveus.
rhis belief. although etlll o'btalning
unong tho masses, has long- ago, been
forsnken by nstronomers, tho 'more I
Ldvanced of whom now belleve the
iead of n comet to he a concentraled |
.wnnm oi* metcors cnvcloped ln gas, I
ind the tall to he a currcnt of eloc
rifled gas proceeding- from it. Tho
?pectroscope shows thut the gnses com
)oslng cometH aro chlefly bydrogon *
ind carbon. whllo sodtum and iron |
lave also been observeil in smaller
inantitl.s. These gases becomc so ?
nrilled ln thc comet tall ihat the falnt- j
jst stars appear through it, undim
n<?d, n.. it s.vecps thc heavens for mll
io'ns of mll-..
Just AVIint Wlll Ilnppen.
.lu. t what wlll happen when we
>ass through the tall of Hallev's com
MOOX LAXDSCAPE, DRAWX TO SHOW FUTURE OF
EARTH'S FERTILE HEGIOXS.
et May IS remains a source of won
derment even to those whose minds are
above thc common drcad of the expe?
rlence. To these it may bo sald that
the great tall whlch wo aro to pass
through Is more shodow than sub
stance. This will be approciated the
better when it is further explained that
our planet itself has, at times, a comet
tall?tho aurora, or "northern lights"?
and that wo have a number of times
passed through the tails of comets,
notably In 1S19 and 1.S61. without those
events having been known untll after
the encounters occurred. Thc only ef
fects ever associated with them have
been some beautlful sunsets.
But supposc we should come In con
tact with the head of a comet and not
merely tha outermost tip of the tall,
as wlll be the case May IS? Here is
what Professor AAr. H. Plckering, of
Harvard Observatory. has to say as
an answer to this questlon:
"Should wo come In contact wlth the
head of a small comet there would
undoubtedly bo a flne meteoric dlsplay.
That ls, ln fact, probably what hap
pened ln 1S33, and also bn a number
of previous occasions?notably-ln 472,
002, 1029, 1202 and 1799, although the
comet itself was not lumlnous.
"H the comet were moving rapidly
with regard to the earth, as in theso
cases, the meteors would bo consumed
at a great altltude in our atmosphere
and no'harm would be dorje. If the
comet were moving in the samo direc
tlon as ourselves, however, and at
about the same speed. the matter
would then become moro serlous, as
many of tho meteors might hit earth's
surface."
So we passed through . a comet's
hc-ad, accordlng to Prof. Flckering* No
yembor 13, 1S33, whon wo had' our
greatest meteor display of all history,
ono whlch caused consternatlon among
the ignorant, many of whom belleved
tho end ot the world to bo surely.al
hand. North America was the part
of the earth's surfaco bombarded at
that time, and over it thc fiery aero
lytes fell as thick as snowflakes. But
these composed tho head of only an
InvlslbJo comeL The vlslble comet
j head whlch has vontured nearest us
| was I,e.\ell's. whlch came with'in 1,
| 400,000 mlles ln 1770. Its. head then
1 looked to be four times the dlameter
l of tho nioon. ?>?
lf AA'e Struck the llcnd.
"Should earth strike the nucieus
(head) of a great comet llke that, for
itiHtance, of 1S5S., It is impossible to
foretcll what would happ'eri," added
Prof. pickerlng, "but posslbly tho
temperature and shock would bo such
that all 11 re wlthln several thousand
mlles of tho polnt of contact would
become oxtlrict, Cohslderlrig tho vast
recesses of .celcstlal spaco, however,
and the inslgnlflcant sizo af ouy eartb,
tho probabllity of such an encountor
may well be likonod, as somo one has
suggested, to the chanco that lf a
man should shut hls eyes anci flro a
gun into the air he would bring down
a blrd."
The most serlous encounter of thls
kind of which there ls material evl?
dence left upon our sphere seems to
havo taken ? placo ccnturles ago near
Cany'nn Dlablo, AVeate'rn Arlzoim,
whero thero lle_ a eonslderable crat
cr, whlch usod to be attrlbuted to vol
canio action, but whlch' ls now be?
lleved -to hnvo boen the work of a
glgantlc moteorlte. Dr. G. P, Merrjll,
head curutor ot geology ln the Na?
tional Museum, has lately conilrmod
thls susplclon and has ostlmatoa that
thls projectlle hurlod from the skies
may havo wolghed B00 tons. Mbteorlo
?materlal'-i.caUered for miles Jn. the
surrounding plalns shows that thls
moteorlte struck wlth such forc<} as to
convert tho snnd Into glass .and Its
own material Into dlamond.-.
lf JI Struck thc {iim.
Colllsion of a cornot wlth the sun Is
a catusiropho whlch ?.slronom.r? re?
gard aa much more likely than one's
i-i.ntact wlth the earth. Tho head of
tlie great comet of i_4!t vontured wltl}.
iu but 32,000 mlles of the sun, near
enougrh to hnvo boen' lapped by somo
of tho solar protuherancos, lf lt had
fallon Into the sun lt wquld probably.
have caused only a allght rlso ln our
lerhpcraturo aml a violcnt ? magaotio
KDWAItD IIAI.T.EY (-..15(1-1742),
Dliicovcrcr of .hc Comct.
dlsturbance. Perhaps these effect?,
which are often slmultaneously noted
by our meteorolog:.stj_ are due to just
such causes. Who knows?
That COO-ton motoorlto which hlt
us near Canyon Dlablo was a monarch
ot Its klnd. The great majority of
these mlsslles falling from the heavens
are not over a grain In wcight. Profes?
sor slmon Newcomb estimated that 15.
000,000 meteorites enter ouratmosphere
every twenty-four hours. So terriblo
is thelr speed that the frlctlon pro
duced by thelr contact wlth our at
moaphero generally burns them up
completely before they can reach the
ground. AVe begln to see the large
ones when they catch fl-e at about
seventy-flve or a hundred mlles up,
but their substancc has generally been
consumed and thelr flre has usually
become extingulshed by the tlme they
havo dropped to wlthin forty or flfty
feet of the ground. Thus they go
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happenlng thereon we would now anc
then see the black thousands or con
testants pass by m a broad cyllndrlca
column often thlcker through thar
earth. Sometlmes the stragglers an
jo many that it takes _w0 years foi
the end of the procesalon to get en*
tlrcly by, and it is some of these thai
we meet with every night as out
#lobe tlows Into the path of one oi
theae meicor sw_rms. Now and ther
ivo cross one of tnese raclng rlngs Jusi
in tlmo to collld- wlth the new bodj
of racers. Such a colllsion we makt
every thlrty-two to thlrty-four ycart
wlth what wo term the "Novcmbet
meteors," whlle every August wc cross
another one of these rlngs. everywher*
along whlch a race seems to be ln
progress at all times. Such awarms oi
meteors seem to be old comets that
have "gone out" after having been
pulled apart by the tlde-productng ac?
tion of tho sun. Thus Blcla's comet
spllt ln two ln 1S46, and when next
due, ln 1S712 was encountered ln thc
form of a new and brilliant shower ol
moteors, seen agaln ln 1885 and 1892.
Thus in those three years we went
through the remains of a comet with?
out damage.
AVlll We Colllde Wlth a Starf
New llght on the earth'a fate may be
afforded by a research belng conduct?
ed by the aatronomers of Llck Obser
vatory, under a bequest made by D.
Ogden Mllls a few years before hls
recent death. A negro jprcacher wa_=
long an object of interest because ol
the perslstence wlth which he argued
that "the sun do move." One of the
flrst naturo lessons taught the youth
of the generation now grown tip was
that tho sun?whlch dld not rlse or
set aa children supposed?was a flx
ture in the skies. But, as a matter
of fact, "thc sun do move," carrylng
all of lts planets and thelr satcllltes
along wlth lt, and what concerns the
astronomers now is to dctcrmlne lts
dlrectlon and spced. Some tlme ago
lt was announced that thls wild race
of the sun, earth apd the rest of thc
solar famlly through space was ln
the dlrcction of tho constellatlon of
Hercules, but after more complete ob
servatlons were made the southern
boundary of tho constellatlon of the
Lyre was declded.- upon as the bull's
eyo of the celcstlal target whlch we
are fatcd to hit. These obaervatlona
woro mado wlth the spectograph,
which records thp dlrectlona of the
stars wlth respect to the sun. But
the estlmatea have not taken Into con?
slderatlon tho biight stars vlslble ln
that quarter of' the sky surroundlng
the South Pole. To observe those,
and thus make this partlcular survey
of the heavens complete, a wonderful
ly Ingonioua spectograph donated by
Mr. Mills was somo tlmo ago taken
by the Llck astronomers to Chlle, and
mounted upon one of tho hllls ovor
looklng the clty of Santlago.
The speed at whlch we aro rushlnjt
toward tho southern boundary of the
constellatlon of the Lyre has been es?
tlmated at between flvo and twenty
mlles per'second, the most wldely ap?
proved estlmato now belng twelve and
ono-half mlles per second.
Our colllsion wlth some star. met
wlth in thia flight through inflnlte
space, is a possible catastrophe now
often dlscussed by goniusos contem
plating tho world's extlnctlon by tlro.
But such a colllsion neod not concorn
us, inasmuch as it would ,take us inll
llona of years to reach tho ncarost
star of tho heavens, oven if wo were
almod dlrectly-at'lt and Wero traveling
at the hlghest speed seriously cop
sldered by astronomers. Vega, tha
brlght partlcular star ln the constella?
tlon of the Lyro, toward whlch we
are supposed to be going, ls so dlstant
that its llght requires twonty-three
years to travol to earth. Thu's, lf lt
had dropped out of tho heavens ln tho
year 1887 twe would not have mlssed
it until now. A.lronoiuers wlth whom
l havo dlsousse-t-niiG imrrjeot gonerally
agreo that even if tha solar system
does eventually pass,' llk'o a volley,
through tho groat colostlal harp, lt
wlll go through without breaklng any
of the golden strlngs or strlklng a
discordant noto in that hurmonlous
song whioh thoatars slng? together.
Mllfk-. lluntp a Dark Sun.
iWe mljjht meet a dark ata* ia tWs,
Journey?some great burncd-out sim
whose place ln ihe hcavens ls now un
auspectcd. But the spectroscopa and
spectrograph. which measure and
record tho pull exertcd even by In
vlalblo Mars. would glve us warninjr
centuriea ahead of tlmo of the ap
pearance in our path of such a hidden
derelict. Such a. black and burned
out sun, hanglng ln the constellatlon
of Perscus. .d Hs flro ronewed a
few ycars ago. probably as a. result of
frlclion generated whlle passlnpr
through a rfebula?one of those vast.
gaseous bodles, mllllons upon mllllons
of miles ln oxtent. which loom up like
green or whlte clouds h*rc and there
mu far'off background of the sky.
The dangei of our passlng througlx
one of these bodles lias been consid?
ered, but It need not worry us. even
as much as tho danger of colllslon wlth
a brlght atar, since the nearest nebula.
cannot bo met by us wlthin mllllons of
years. What would occur should such
a colllslon tako place can hardly be
contemplated, for although astrono
mcrs belleve that these nebulao are.
the raw materlal out of .which worlda
are made, they are not agreed as to
thelr structure. ,Some appear to have
planet-IIke nuclei, Into which they are
condenslng?such as the two eyes of
the owl nebula in the Great Bear.
Others aro in the form of great splrals.
or ririgs. "Whlle many float isoiated
ln thc sky. others are connected wlth
groups of stars In such manner as to
lead to the susplclon that their ma?
terlal is some substance belng throwrt
off by those stars. Tho grcen nebulao
seem to be composed almost entlrely
of gas. whilo the whlte are of gaseous
and solid matter combined. The onlv
nebula consplcuous to the naked eye
can be Seen on clear nlghts in Androm
eda.
Whal'a Ilk.lf-M io Happen.
That our raco wlll bc exterminated
by cold and drougrht beforo any of
these collislons with other heavenly
bodles occur is the bcllef of the ma?
jority of astronomers. The orthodox
notion ls that earth ls a ficry mass
surrounded by a crust formed by a
gradual coollng of tho sphere. and.
that thls coollng will continue, along
wlth a drying up, untliwe becotno as
cold as the moon, lf not nearly as
small. The oceans are belleved to
be slowly dtsappearing. Indeed, the
lato Professor Dana, of New Haven,
constructed maps showing how the
land of North Amerlca has been galn
Ing at the oxpense of the sea, nnd
other authorJtloB have charted such
chang-es In tho Old World, where, dur?
lng paleozolc tlmes, the who|o of Ku
rope was a.sca bottom, wlth tho ox
ceptlon of the north of Scotland and
Scandlnavla. The present sltes of Lon?
don, Parls andvBerlln wero shut be?
neath tho emorald domo of tho droad
ful deep.
That oarth's fate Is plctured in those
wonderful photographs of moon land
scape which astronomers aro now tak?
ing ls the bollef of these savants, In
other words, our ultlmato destiny! aa
mlrrored ln tho moon, is to become an
ondless desert waste whefso whlto sand
mlnglos wlth the dry salt of the evap
orated oceans,
That wo wlll .become like Mars, as
an Intermodiato atcp beforo reachlng
tho condltion nf tho moon, ls the bei
llef of Professor. Fe-rclval Lovrell. who
soes in our dosorts tho "beginnlng of
tho end." Our lorests, ho says, wlll
tum to grasslands and our grasslands
to wastes, until ovontuaily the rem
nant of manklnd wlll congrogate in
the last oases of the desert spots whloh
were once tho sea bottoms,
"Unless somo other catastrqph'e' ocour
flrst," Professor Lowell says, "oarth'B
becoming a barren waste, like Mars, 1?
a_ .'.ataliatlcally sure aa that tb-mor
row's'sun wlll rlao." '
But thlacafaat'rophc, like'the others
dlaoussod, muat awalt mllllona or years "
for Us consummatlon, and who knows
but that long beforo that tlmo the
human rnco may havo boen succeeded
ln Its.tloiiilnion over curtli by a, spoclea
of superman whoso genlus wlll fortlfy .
our, sphoro agalnst flre, fanun. br
freealng and wlll steer its course oloar
of tho worst obstaolca .placed ln it?
path?
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