The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-30
The Comet.
TO TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

NEW YoRK, Marcn 2s, 1857.
One Of the city journals Of yes.erday, In few lines In
PRODUCING letter from = professor OF Cambridge Uni
vsrsy with regard to the expected comet expresser s
anxious fears that It's readers may have been frightened
out Of the remsios OF their ws by statements which have
been made on the authority Of N. BAbne., = French
savant 10 the effect tha, collision was TO saks place
about the month Of June next betweon our planet and
The aforesaid comet 10 he serious de,ment former
Permit hrough your coamns inform the editor OF
the Boeton Daily Adre, sud the CAnbrtse professor
alluded to- that so far from babnes being the person
On whose authority the extraordinary eve,t WAS AZ
rouncea, he has heen mainly in exploding
the idea through his scientific eule,ins
publ seed In the Journal des Dehas translate few
Of N Bsopc,s remarks on the subiec.-
he one Positive no
any eHtraordDsry pbenomen,n Neither Of tue i'ur
heir wei known movements have rendered them very
gard The Cbses ouini which astronomers Look Sr
Quite recently number of persons went to work to cal,u
late the perursscns that GOMEZ mus, bsys experienced from
land b doae this and his cSIa5Sr
,s d 'or haley. come, A. s return in 1859 According to
ed vast des Of time and labor has calculated delay Q,
pier ssiurp Uranus neptune the earth Venus and Mari
nj thee st remains taiay Of too
would sns p.;e IN u.s. * comet ogsh, therefore %
warts until sbou me middle OF the twentieth century Then
vi regn no ooubt throughout the earth the Of godor
Lveryhin indicates that meeting would do no ibiu
q this Ss.r from %S1 s ss celestial s
very oAhque'y towards the and passes a. distance
more meet our psrei ts.n nan who walking soSs the
banks Of The kuPha,e Of The Gaaess could meet another
ron To familiar example. suggested 10 BY
no essnss sS0H and ma tho sss ns sss hero
ssoss, gD sSS.s ss r'e Of srsoS r.
neri mark inc iss humber 49, asonomers would be very
happy 4 hel bad ther comet By tbsi time Irepea
iban IN 1855, 1859 in 1890 This positive science
Al . la,e messing Of the Academy Of sciences. N.
BAbnet prescrted some most Interesting details and cal
cusiiops with regard mute Ishsncss OF omets
star OF the eleventh magnitude sccB without any
isrsibe Ioss OF sh comet OF coo kontres
N breath. Lie observations have been made BY
Hsrsobe Bessel struve, GO Absorbing N photometry,
,hsreore toe comet was At least sky nnes ess baa,
ihsn the star To reader invisible q star Of the nth
msgnus e, which $50 imes brighter than star ., the
eleventh magnildds would be necossary render the
comet eco ott tines brighter and ~ the atmosphere ~
Of the hfsh and inferior sguilufs tue ne
ccsssry conclusion TO- thai the comet Terminated In
br,,,n tssn osr stmosphere lin ,,stsa bs ina
But the light OF the moon In s Toll s0o,oo5 times Ices
brilliant Than the full Highs o. the therefore II the
gill be seven hundred and twenty billions Of times
BRIGHTER tnan The comet The conct OBSERVED thu,
Of EDeke In 1873 The result Of those observations That
The comet may he 1snilatsd In ,rigs 10 ar vnca
would be forty eve millions OF nillsds OF lighter
than ordinary air n Bsbincs he's said. and h
repeated, tost comets are visible Mornings. He q,osss
NJ Faye the asropomicN proprietor Of one OF NE four
periodical ooTnets Who alter stating that comet not
even sases aads may De seem By the no i,,ls the
mechanical effects OF the shock Of . oDmet agaisst
earth 70 be feared lie msreu ooswss wouls oner
more resistance TO . musset ball" sr John Heuohel
osms. Nov he ssrh, according 70 the latest cs,cuis
tions OF lie ccmpsctsess, equal 10 weight OF six
,houssrd milnvds Of millisrds OF tons
ous,on,hss those Who are killed BY comes merely de
Of terror. sopadty and ignorance" have the honor
70 be, cir, jour ooedseet ser, ant, n,