Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-27
THE LATE COMRT.
Whore lt has Gone 70 and when II
uay - expoctsa Again.
Hnaeial CnrreaInndance Of iha Il MN nr II. -

l 1 - VA AUOctUO A80bus
Special Correspondence Of the RgrURLlcAS
Hook EssIN. Del. Feb. a. 1894
| am frequently asked nv vmr read
ers what has become of the comet p
Having lust obtained. through TN
kindness Of Prof. Frisby. Of the Wash
ton Naval Observatory. the latest com
plete and accurate enhemaris of nm
wonderful visitor of last wear. I an
now able 10 answer such a,iestions witt
a certainty heretofore unatainable.-
All the MANY doubts and snrmises con
cerning its identity as related to tn,
comets of 1913 and lssO-when 1t is 90
ing to fall into the sun and be consrm
ed or consume us. whether II was a yisi
tor to return again or never to retnrn-
all these certaintjes are now we'll act
tied and net At rest
The parabolic orbit. selec,n, nv Nh,
adept = IA closely reDresentinp the comet.
motions in the vicinity OF the sun Ca,
reported to you in nv letter of Noyem
Der ls), has answered its te,nnorar,
purpose, and, like the so-called falss
work, used BY the engineer in the Gro
alton of noble structures has been torn
down and cast aside. while the assured
deduction of numerous and continued
observations and laborious calculations
now remain AZ monumental truth t
stand recorded in the annals of
astronomical research. II now salts.
factorily determined tba, our great comet
of 1882, while near the sun followed
closely in the track of those ~ 1a49 and
1890, but was not identical with them
that its orbit is not, AZ first assumed. n
Darabola, but an immense elliDse in
ronnd numbers l6. 900. 600 of miles In
length, measured along its major axis,
in the focus of which ellipse ia the sun
only about IA 900 miles from the end
This 724,47O miles constitute what is
called its perihelion distance and was
reported in November as
about SDO, 900 miles.
Around this solar focus II wheeled
with an awful velocity. which nt it's
NAV be roughly stated at one
million miles per hour, passina it's
perihelion I'm. l6 sec. after noon Sen.
tembrr II. Washington time. The
apparent transit across the sun
;is dsllcc,l by the Cometorium and re.
por1ed November 1g seems tn he cou-
tirmpd by observations made nj the Can.
Town Observatory mentioned in the
Pop,lar Science Monthly for ,Jauuarv
Mr.. Gill. hedirector of that observatorv
states that its contact with tbs SIMS
limb was seen nv two observers at 1b
,lm. an S4nt.,nher ~ me,n local
line.
The accurate determination of the di.
of this stunendm,s orbit "a
,boye given. enables the astronorner nj
me. 10 co,nn,,t, its nrri,dic lime which
\ stated Inv prof Frishv at 713 $50 v.,rs
hat il 7Y3 wear, 1,liL iavs
So then Won NAV answer tbe oucrv
What has became nf tbe comet 50
hus 81, is yerpiny lis wav outward
bound along this mighty race cmIrse nt
he rat, Of ab,ut | 25tI m) niles nor d,v
md NJ the distance ION Wa,biupton's
,irthjayI of ygI GOO fo0 ,f miles from
he s,,I,-beyund all br- telesconir sipb,
nd that the generation now liyinp
wherever they ma, then Lrl NAV look
pr its re,uru ah,u, A u J675: tbat
lloul,h its orb, reaches ont about lG'- |
OO, 900, 600 mile, il wnnld have To 90 to