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hood, but stop no where long enough 10 OBJ
tain "A settlement under the paper art. Tom
Campbell, who is said to lave been an AS
trononer, as well as a poet, illustrates tho
unknown wanderings Of the soul by the still
more devious voyages Of Comets thus
"Soul of the Just companion Of the dead
Where is thy home, and whittier art thou fled II
Back to its heavenly source thy ing goes,
Swift as the Comet wheels to whence II rose,
Doomed on its airy course awhile to burn,
And doomed, like thee TO travel and return.
From planet wheeled to planet more remote,
1t visits realms beyond the reach of thought
Yet turning homeward when it, course Is run,
Curbs the red yoke and minges with the sum-"
Lord Byron, also, who was a sort OF Com
ct himself, for he certainly moved in very
eccentric orbit, and was probably better ac-
quaintcd than Campbell with the pranks Of
these pilgrim strangers thus touches of
their pecuiaritics, in the Vision Of Judg-
ment:
1.-THE angels all singing out of tune
| And hoarsc with having nothing else to do,
| Excepting TO wind up the Sun and Moon,
| Or curb away young Star or two,
| Or wild colt Of n Comet, which too soon
| Broke out Of bounds Ger the ethereal blue
| Splitting some planet with It's playful tall
| As boats are sometimes by wantOn whale"
~ We 'eauer ucsrcS 10 scc ""'e ue
tailed description Of this sidereal straggler,
by an American poet, he will find one on
our fourth page, drawn by the graphic pen
Of DR. .. w. HOLMES.
| Having thus given the poetcal view Of the
81, lect in general, we now ask the readers
attention to the f,llowlng account, in plain
prose, of the bright particular star which
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mas )nSt Deen Cleaning IN the SKY And
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WIN WIS We ''oS'' 'es' "" 'h'e sfou'u ueeo"e
as long as that of tho Comet without being
s
L as luminous.
!, U,ou Scuoo, OnsrnvA-oev
u pb,Iodcini,i, March q ISd3
n Jose,h r. ChanJler soNDrar SIR Finding that
the en,nents If ,he yro,, conner Of E4hrunrv l943
r furnished IN tho oI ns,on, ,il M, represent the
,,a,,n or No co,,o, s,,;scc,,,, ho;ny !, fac do
u ;I ,on, ,,,L;n ~, ,l,, ,s ,ba comet "a seen in
n ha c,me, GO, rcher II,rding's Atl,s of Tho STAR,
ond bnn connun, H. ai,,,,.,1s from ,bese ni,ces'
d p.,.n VtJii 49, ,,lc ,,,;Iod orrsol,.sp ~ ~
liTeeso ~ inI Az AZ, w. ,ol -, - Oh y, -
y mgn.s Oh 'le ivi, zls', gu, -o al f'. ~ aNe
n nee nicromeIer measures "i 'ie os''oh W .e een
e OF inc nnc'ous, i'an shnl s'a'S II, ',e s'.e eu
ct view Of me y ieei frnunhoer. me star, uFe1 on
" n, zZd, Z5d, ana 24th' are ound IN Besse zone
opser. ntIohs ny means OF NOSE ui me i3.h' @Io
ri ana Zlth, we nave copiaed Inc ioowe SCI OF eie-
ments' which correspon pretty well WIN me obscr-
vatons, VIZ rtrhelon Passage, feo' Zoi' oih' o'h'
vs. MT PhIanelphia 49,
-, Ascending Nude, lno deg III 20 90
'" Inclination, %, ~ 81
rs Longitude OF inc ferhelon -9- %o oo3tt
Perihehon distance, w o0'1
te Moton d"ec'. . - .., 49,, r.
a. These elements 10 nn' usrpG WIN Muse oi any
colne, on ieI"'u II ,''.I, s, Ju INV , ~
~ hccoun, ~. ne o"',e "'e s ,,h Wy ~.
~ Tue -o,n vi rr'' I' " !, ~ Lc .J 80 ,j.
pasSeu ,1s "u Io h .'r'c
e. an md "n 10 5sIb vas far cnh os, If ,h snn IN he
Il W. 80; 49,, IL IL, .o.,aro ., ~
~ 80 49,, ID aII,ta,J r ., NJ, poJfrrd
IT. SUM- 'e''''"' 'o'''""'' ''''''e'' -''" "'0'o'
Tho cro,, coro, If rsbruorv ,e43 is one of tho
''o s'V" ~, Il y. ~. ~ - :, IL Ls,.
u nus, NJ'' GU M h ] ippc"i,,,;,es Tha..
VI ''.e & ' On hr Tboy been ndnrnbIv
,uu a5' G pG,s.or MIS- Of Wes,ern Reserve
at I, n -, OF j.; ~ a,,;cla ,h;ch was renuh.
u'''Ic' .,uuHo', , ", w. 30 ~, ,Jh, proesso,
lis m IT,ieu II, ;e ,r croJ -, New Haven II Is
ne no, ,om,,kobIe IN ! ,e,merc, relations or all
he comets on record whose elements have been com.
80 iahon, "a. i, ,,,nher, his or C.hruo,v lea3
nnchos no,,cs, ,be snn event the creoi comet
ffGso ,yb,ss n,,ihe ian distance oc,oIdino 10 The
nanra,o cn,nnui,,i,ns If EncLs was ohout 81 HIM.
re-, ,J ,ons,nd n,is non, Tho sr,s centre Tb,, n,
AZ the presenr comet is about eight h. nlred thousand -
When we consider thai the SUMS surfnre is four hun
ed ired and forty thousand miles from IT. ertc we find
. tina, bo h comets approach much rea!.r The SUNS
'r surface than that surface lis he Period
he Of the comet 1850 somewhat remarkable Encke
e GS be ham the 'ss
10 its moving way in pnrahoa never to return.
This affords some ground for con ecure concerning
le- the period of the present comet
IL Astronomers have welt with asonlshment on the
uS rapidiy with which The comet of 1850 whred round
or. The sun nj the instant of perlhelon passage This
was such that continued would have carried ten
I'd, times round the sun in one day. The present Come
would have zone five times round The suntn the me
~ me IN hct wen" np o r n,c, s u nebon M
soue The elements of the present Comet require nice
las observations for their deermination-In fact the
IL Comet, ,honrh only DAYS pas, its per
heion has one hundred and sixtv.nine degrees Of
self omoIy in its narnbolc orbit This anomaly IA
greater than lint n, which all comets except that
MS 1850 have disappeared from views. Indeed so unex
moi pected is the circumstances ola comets being
this anomaly, that Burckhardr extended his table o
WE anomalies of comets only n lb4 degrees ~ conse
an quence of which, Professor Kendall ana myself hnd u
80 compute new table for our own use for the occasion
nd. Some idea of this remarkable PECULIARLY may be form