The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-12-29
COMET COMING
Astronomer Camille Hsnnariou Says i.
IS Nov Ira7el;ng
WITH ENORMOUS SPEED

just Now the Path OF the Erratic
Visitor is Directed Both Towards
the Earth and the sun, Bat /;
VIII SooH Draw Away From til.
Earth.
Camille F.anarinon. the dIsti.-
srished French astronomer. writes
OF Ealley's Genet 10 The New York
Herald as follows: Eal;eys comet.
,ae arriva: OF which was permit
TED 10 witness BY quite celestial
:avo: on the Photographic plates
o. Heidelberg University. on Sep
tenn Der -. is advancing rapidly to-
ward the earth Al that time IL was
522 million k!loneteTs from US: ;bis
distance has been reduced to 2e6
million. which il about the distance
OF the orbit Of Nara TO the sua
The comet then has come about three
hundred million klIoneters closer 20
Us In sevea,y-s.1 days. wa!ch gives
IL an average speed o; 3.3s0.0o0
kilone:e:s o: very nearly four nail
lion kIloneters y day. Truly pre;-
y ea!r speed! That speed. too. will
30 On increasing according as the
Genet draws nearer 70 the sun.
Just now the comets path Is di-
.ec.sd toward both the sun and the
earth. After sae middle OF Deeen-
ber. while s;al speeding onward
toward tie sun. It will draw away
tron eur plszet- Later oa. how
| ever. It will again neve toward the
earth through the combination o:
its elliptic orbi, with the almos;
circular path which the terrestrial
globe describes evocy yesT around
the Tadiea, heat center OF the so!a:
system.
IA . pale nceuln. Invisible even
BY means Of the mos; powerful IN
s,rumeats. r'ceepub!e only by the
Photographic eye. the comet pass
ID. II the middle OF Sep,em oer. from
the 18th to the 18th magnitude. BY
the middle Of October It had reach
cd the 18th. and =, the beginning
OF November the l4ra. Il has now
reached the 18th magnitude. and lis
movements are follow ID puactually
BY tho powerful instruments OF the
observa:ories Even It's spectral
analysis already has been conmenc-
ed
The come; should on April &C
reach the point o! its nearest ap-
proach 10 The sun. It's per!hel;on s0.-
| 00o.oeo k!iomeie-s from the solar
| sphere It's speed IS then $4,000
meters second. 3.24o k!lometer, a
minute. Or 1s4.44+ k.lometecs an
hour. Bathing IN the eIuvia Of the
electric. esioI!ac. luminous raG!a-
| ton OF the sun. il becomes iinp:eg
mated with Its rays. undergoing II!
its whole being fantastic traa>ior-
nations which lend I, prod!gious
glory. develop il by multiplying. ten
times hundred times. It's volume
| lenSthen!ns il TO millions and mil
lions 0. kiloIeters By kind o.
phosphorescepce which always IS ex-
tended away from the sun and gives
rise 70 the formidable tails which
flled with terror the somIs OF our
ancestors.
Thence,or:h the wanderers path
;akes it away from the arden, coz
te. 30 sink into the deserts o:
! !mneasi;y. gradually Diminishing in
size. becoming so.t OF Invisible
bubble. and finally 10 nnd again the
night OF rs aphe!!oa IN which tor
years and years 1t IS lost 10 The eyA7
Q: astronomers on ;ae earth. II
goes away 10 distance o. eve thou
sand million ki!cneters. into the
ultra Septu1!an night. IN which It's
speed is gradually decreased 10 l:r>s
thea. k!lo2e'e- per .ecoui TX
total duration OF It's ciccui, Is siA,y-
Eve years.
After leaving it's pe.ihelion Ii,
comet. travelling away from the SUI
again approaches the terrestrial or
Bit. Up TO tie time it reaches -
pe-iheiioa-,hat is.unti! April 20
1t will be morning s;a:. visible II
the cas-; before the sun rises II
becomes an evening star after t..
pe!ihel!on and will oe visible n The
ives; after sunset Quite probably
1t viii! be then very remarkable. a>
i: was in the spring OF 1865. a,
the s!ue OF the Conquest OF Ea=-
Lad. and n the spring OF 1885. a:
the period OF the wars OF the ':'urks
and the Christians directe! oy y.
hones II and Pope caliztus III
This time possibly 1; Is - CIV
us surprise on the after effects |
OF which Il Is dimcuit to theor!ne
According to the calculations OF sew
0SSs SSSGC8o VIC ak NO." DC
cupied by he special orbi, CT the
comet during It's present opposition.
i; may pass before the sun about May
IS. NJ. Cromuelin. in England.
and Mr.. Sear!e In America. agree
with the calculations o: others on
this position. At that date the Mead
OF the como, w!ll be t~enty-si1 mil
Hon ki!ometers away from as.
Now. the s1nets tails are often
thirty. forty or atty million kilo-
meters in length and they are =!
ways extended away from the sun
This immense appendix then might
reach US. might envelope us .or sev-
eral hours. VIVA, VIII be the ,esu!:
OF this meeting o. such an !mner-
stoo?
Without going again over The
ground I covered IN my work on the