The New York herald., 1872-08-11
one Of the most interesting Of comeac problems


minds Of SnG Ses tmid people, might seem to
indicate that Planta@cur % may, after an prove
@ rue seems pretIy cerna h;'n SIi ~ vn ,nc
~ e paiS ther "r ,d nSs S r"tue,y Mttle harm
% we u1% % sneIc w0u.a De compar"sMvey M av.e nv nor " 10
destruction very badly but 4 is not after al, very
empire or even three Or iour hundred years ago
sS Or 'se Sa Sn e end
world BY 81. bernard de Marlaix, beginning
lenUs,n Ao''''"@' '0''po'" p'0'u~' 'uA' ''e'
''N'' - The world /. very evil; .srst
M INC fs,nI times "Is are r.vn WAXING KIM late;
me 'uuse ass. - ~ 'ne sa.e.
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and the sphere which serves as ITS home into com
wreck Of death and a
the Of the FOR Us Simply means
the same death to which we are all surely speed
Doubt anc c that fellow
character Of the catastrophe, but merely from an
end Of 'S this % World comes to every man when the
breath fades ont Of his body ana the light dies out in
moslSoness. mo - '.s pa.1ss ~ y - -. D'. So" '
sIGNoR DoNArI % ON pIANTAMcvH M Al M ,,u
article, was pSb'sSed % by sienor " Dona in the
Many Journals have lately rren to the state
ssrsh ss suddenly tSe years 5saaesS ilyS
take place the coming August II added
am Size and e
'"Is u there anv trutb in all these rumors,
%hs QUESTION having sses aTsssa @ = re from many
different sources consider it eApeaent to make public
That some astronomer has lately seen large comet is
Visible al sSs present probable, howsvsr that
science those which do appear be large nasmuch
s Sn hse a ase
been made would render IT possible to make investiga
Meanwhile, It may be remarked that no astronomer
can fSresee whether & % WI or W not 1--WE
various times and OF which the coarses are known with
or these known or periodical comets, arc there any
This IS the question which astronomers may be asked
and TO which they can reply by virtue of the data which
Among Ie periodical comets hitherto known there is
%e e ss lie e the s IL IL dix
nasnss nna ns2s nns months ~ and which, indeed is due
But cal the comet of Bela strike the earth
IS s e "s Ysn To- s es
S os s 0Ss n Sy to sus y
svey passes completing its annual circuit round
but ss are ns sa
they cross each other her at certan M place ~.
to contemporaneously collision would necessarily
in our time and much less during the present year,
made Il results hai in 1877 the comet Of Beia wilt s
keen at from the s earth & 81 Te YIN
that day the earth will be distant from the comet almost
say, ihe distance he 'he earth viii be on
ssys tSs distance Win g5saiy aSs%eS.ed '6h oS hs
latter will at that time be greatly distant from the sald
that
n,n
sn s ss saS
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IS ss 1T ss s HG o be n s @
eS ns s a n % in a an
Sna G ere se esf w that the comet of Bea is verv
;%s ara that cannot Be seen Without the aid 81
s& ,Sa s
a ns s % @ 'ss Sss s.Ssss ss
the ay " OF this belief neveTiheiess nasmuch as Inc
Sai imposslss distances + 'Ss .Rs
the Tnns
But, the present case, there is still another reason,
those Which have already been urged @'"A
the comet Of Bieia no longer exists '"'
aDe the ycs e 10 e f S
comet from the earth have advanced upon the hynoh
ess that the comet still exists and that II continue 10
advance in the course which II has followed up TO 1851
NevertheIess since 1852 tho comet has not been seen
That The comet in 0uegtion woud reapnear every s,x
wears ard nine monfhs c;rcn was recornized in lsi6
yybnn The nstronomnr IeIa Jscovered and ~ Wa
known also at that time thai it had been observed cas
ay In 771 d iS; From lsl6 IN 1872 tho comet w os Oh
served in lis successive with
the cxcentinn az that of $50 I'm that weir il nccun,S
nositon In such close nroximv IN tho snn thai hp ri
,;ocv of Tho Latter prcycncd IL from he no seennre
csey on the same prncre iha, we are 10 see he
stars dnr;a the day though they may neyer,he lie
| nsan nSnn our our hs hsr}R:;.Tn R;.T ., wy '
The Snnn =" soc tho comet oc Rica In 1870 was ofrib
ucd therefore TO its proximity TO The sun This crcum
stance however was NOT renewed in the suc eedng re.
of 1876 in which wear the comet was observed
from All the obsc rvatories o both hempheres In 1916
The comet OF Bcla presented most extraorinary phe
nouenon Instead of appearing SINGLE case