The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-05-12
COMET PLAINLY
VISIBLE To ALL
MANY PEOPLE RISE EARLY
EVERY MORNING TO GET
GLIMPSE OF VISITOR
Ii Rises About 2:45 O'Clock and is
Visible Until a Few Minutes Before
DayIight-PiainIy Seen With the
Naked Eye. ....

The comet in all it's glory could be
seen bright and early yesterday morn
ing jast before Old Sol poked his. shin
ing face above the sky on the eastern
horizon.
A brighter and more thrilling OBJ
Ject was never seen in the sky" ac-
cording to a prominent citizen, but he
had forgotten that his majesty, the
comet, has often visited the regions
of the earth.
Just about 800 a. M, yesterday, all
in blaze of cometary light, Halley's
comet sped from behind cloud and
startled many a negro citizen as he
walked brislly on to his work at de
railroad" Although most of that race
has heard of the famous phenCmenon
very few of them can help feeling a
small superstition akin to fear when
this pretty object is visible.
And well may they fear, if some Of
the popular surmises about what will
happen when the earth and that body
get at theil nearest point to each 9TH
er, are correct.
All of the United States weather bu-
reau observatories have been notified
to look for any unusual fluctuations in
the atmosphere or weather. and the
popular but uneducated mind has TAX
en- on more or less fear at this propo-
sition. However this warning to the
weather men is merely for the sake of
natural science, as all over the world
scientists are preparing for the great
est study ever made of the regular
part OF the wandering star.
One of the things that is mCst in
teresting to the astronomer of today
is what is the composition of the So
called tail OF the comet What is its
turn away from the sun instead of
following the head of the comet in its
mad flight through space? The idea
is that it is mere flying particles
thrown off by the head of the specter
has practically been abolished, for one
reason that the comet would soon
burn itself out instead of travelling
for many and many years practically
in the same path Then, again, if the
tail were merely particles thrown off
by the comet they would naturally fol
low the head in its fight just the same
as sparks follow a rocket through the
sky But, as the comet leaves our
solar system. it's tail goes out first, al
though slightly at an angle away from
the sun.
The earth viii, according to some
astronomers, pass through this tail
sometime during the day of the 18th of
this month. Then is the time that the
scientists expect to gather some very
interesting and enlghtenng data on
the subject of comets, what is the
composition and why it is that they,
this one especially, travel almost eter-
nally through space, coming into cur
solar system once about every %
| years, only to shoot around the sun IN
| one majestic whirl, and to shoot OFF
again in almost the same direction in
which it entered returning again near
ly a century later.
But, it. is visible here now. in the
early Mornings, and in a short time
will appear in the evening sky, shortly
after sunset. Then it will go off into
space across the heavens gradually
setting in the west later and later IN
! the night and at the same time, fading
/ off into dimness, finally disappearing
from the sight Of the naked eye.