New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-01
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TIL. ,onics discussed in this number are GALyAN
,.v Tuy Moon .Sp IHr WEATHER Periodic
Coxsrs. and RADATIoS OF HEAT. Dr. Lardner
certainly among the mos, lucid and successful eA
oosior. Of the sublime and wondrons truths OF Nat
ural Science. for the great mass OF students ana
reader, No one can fail 10 understand him. We
rive brief extract from the Lecture on Periodic
Comets
rvxrr1's CoMrr-In the month Of June, l11O Mes
.;er observed comet which afterward surHcieniy
o.erved To render is through the system cacu
liable It was found not TO correspond VIZ 'es o. an
comet previously known remained visible for an IN
ususl enprh Of time and continued ooserv atons on
proved tia, Il moved not comets were then generally
found 20 move in para5ola, or very elongated ePse
our in an oval of very small Dimensions
Its orbit was calculated by te celebrated exe ano
found 70 be an epse Of which the greater AXIS was Only
equal 20 thee times the diameter OF the eartns orut
which showed that it. periodical revolution round NJ
.,,n would be completed in fire ysdrs and hGy
WIN 90 short period the comet ought frequently n
be seen But here springs up difficulty. This comet
was never seen before and has never been seen since
What then. has become OF ~ and where ana no" old
!, e., before It's discovery b. Meser IT. appearance
was TOO conspicuous and It's ght too VIVID u allow o.
the suppositon thai il could have been present yet no.
observed. 49,,
dvelonet by his ilustrous SUCCESSORS enables fully
70 explain this difficulty. We shall adopt the words Of
Arago
nm has ,,ths coraa bern erey fire years and
half b,for, lTsO Because the orbit was then totally al
f.re1, from that il has since pursued.
ysg has not the bern since lf'Of FOf the
rason that is passage the point Of per1heon IN lu
took place by day and before the following return IN
form Of the orbit altered that had the comet been
vhe from the earth would not have been recognised
Iexen had already remarked according to h. Gle
meni- Of no that the comet ought 70 pass ~ the wen
10 1oo- ffaF.
distance from the sun. that IN Up when returned to
"a il would be- near the end Of August about i've nun
bred ,rnes that same planet than 70 me sun :"
that then notwithstanding he immense SIZE oil th' -v
obe N. attractive power the comet was not the two
hundredih part that OF Jupiter. thus coud MOI ~
doubted that the comet had experienced con-iaefADf
periurbaiions in 767 and l77s but 1t yet necessary
establish that these perturbaons were NUM- cHy siohl
enough TO explain the total want Of observations a. WEI
| before a after the year l1IO.
The t,rrnulares IN the fourth volume Of the Msoanqi
Cs,e rive the ANALYTICAL solution Of this prObein ".
scual ellinc orbit being known wilai was u
preyious orbit What will it be- hereafter taxing nu
account 10 both the perturbaing effects caused u
| the planets Of our system ..,.-
nv snb.,itutng for lie component ndeerminaie lcl
tors the particular elements Of the comet OF l'O- w"
ar, be found that in 1867 previous TO the approach d"
that body 10 Jupiter the elliptic OrDi when II drr,
cr,e.nond. not 10 five but to fifty years Of revolution
round the sun serward that IN l''s on IL uepauI'
ON, ~ IN. attraction OF the planet, the orbit OF th'
could less tnan twenty
From the same researches results that before 100
dnrng the whole progress Of lis revolutions. the shortest
distance Of the comet from the sun was one hundred a
ninety nine millions Of leagues 1--WE hundred and ninety
seven millions Of miles, and that after ~ the minimum
distance became one hundred and thirty one millions
of leagues three hundred and ninety three millions o.
miles This was still far removed tor the comet %
| be- perceptibe from the earth.
However singular II may appear. we are teh, lulil
authorized 10 say of the comet Of no that the acton o.
Jupiter brought in l6 and that the same aciion
producing an inverse effect, removed II rom as IN '
| year l719
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