The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-23

runner Singular, considering the number OF 0bscSva
CORES We hare In this country that little attention has
Deem paid BY OF them 10 the subject Of the
snort period which have recently visited u.s. and Of the
one particularly OF long PERIOD yet looked for, with
nnesy degrees Of tail This last whether strikes the
eassAor moi. would create oesolsng hurricane even
y only passed near The wind Of cannon ball has
been known to kill What would be the effect Of
gale bosiIg at the rate Of 10000 miles an hour
eighty times faster than telegraph message
ted for that was the speed Of the or 1851
teave 70 be determined by that class Of cAlcuators who
nave furnished the French and American press with pro-
found estimates of the airy nothngness Of these wander
Ing orbs II is certainly remarkable that all the spscu
Iatons which have been published as yet with but two
excepons-one ling journal in Paris and another In
New York-the fact that wind In motion destructive
egcn has been wholly et Of view. is proved that
comet Is without sensible density So Is cir in its ordi
nary form and in its daily action upon us when not in mo-
0on- But Is very dangerous article when il sweeps
olong at the rate Of hundred mile, hour and when
Il acts upon vacuum II Is with power strong enough to
LII mountains.
The comet OF which we are speaking is rapidly de.
parting from system, which it visits once In five and
half years. and II can yet be through ordinary
low power telescope we shall presently explain.
IL aas discovered BY DAash astronomer Of the
OF Brorsen at Kiel In 1886 had roundish nebulosty
discovered the constellation Pisces the 18th of Febr
cry that year The observations were NOT a. numerous
desirable but from such calculations could be made
by tho abost astronomers ct the time It's next arrival at
perheon was fixed as probable In september or Novem
Der 1851 But though anxosy sought for then
found This circumstance induced the belief that period
had been incorrectly calculated The elements Of the
elliptic curve then substituted for those OF the para
poa and they ascerained agree with path In
che heavens which this comet had described It's period
was then corrected 70 ten years. and the who
looked for 1t accordingly, detec ed 1t In its right place
neary 80 on the 18th Of Mach last In Aries. 1t
also at the Harvard Observatory. There was
great anxiety felt TO determine the remarkable form of this
Comes orbit, which affected by a approach to
Jupiter, and 1t Is now grataed. It's dimensions well
&sceraned Its apheon ia, according to W. Tuttle Of
Eewburyport, beyond the orbit OF Jupiter more than
80 900 900 miles. At its periheion IL was just within
che orbit Of Venus Its geocentro motion mostly In
right ASCENSION @ distance the celestial equator In an
eastery direction from the meridian passing through the
verna equinox), being about fifteen minutes daily from
west 10 east.
On the 9Th inst nearest the earth or twenty mil
nons les aistan though invisible naked eye and
rapidly recedng But these persons who have telescope
ooe Of low power will do very well-may be able TO
Gee before 1t disappears Is tho constellation
Of the Great Bear, (Ursa xajor) 1t about twelve
days since midway between Omicron and Pr two Of
the eighty stars belonging this constellation and
which, with other stars readers well know take
their from the Greek alphabet When their num-
Der exceeds that Of the letters of this alphabet then the
Roman alphabet is used and when this is exhausted mum
bers are resorted to-
Finally, our readers, by keeping sharp look out this
essiurda evening" and directing their glasses towards
Che star Beta In the Great Bear the loves, two
pointers will find the Brorsen within the field OF an
ordinary sized object glass and easily observable.