The Jackson herald., 1910-08-04
I.l COMETS
80 ;nJ Fao,.s That Were Un-
a,s.aot BY 8.J Nye.
t.. Study CT SKY SCIENCE.

H.. Study CT SKY SCIENCE.
Tn. Aumors.'s R,ses -ehes Shed Q
Flood o' 5r,li'sn, Light Upon the
Peculiar T~sits o. the "Astronon,ieal
Ssrod'ss on the Planets"
Thr famoIs American buuiorist, Bui
N!". wro,- the following article on the
traits "f ,ou,r,s fW the San Francisco
Areonau,. IN which II was published
number of years ago.
The comet is q kind of astronomical
vsr'dy oa the planet. Comets look
s"'ne like planets. but they are thin.
Brr and do DOT hurt % hard when they
bt sUybcdy ~ q planet does. The
rome, wHa % called because u had
hsir on L. ! believe. but OF late years
the baIdbeaded comet 10 giving just
~ good satisfaction every where
The cbarsetessstsc features Of the
comet ere ; nwcleus. q nsbuIous light
o. coma and usually q luminous train
or tell worn high Sometimes several
tails are observed on one comet. but
this occurs only In nush times.
When was young ! used to think
I would like to be a comet in the sky.
up above the world so high. with
nothing to do but loaf around and play
with the little new laid planets and
have a good time. but now can see
where I was wrong. Comets also
have their troubles. their perlhelious,
their hyperbolas and their parabolas. A
little over 300 years ago Tycho Brahe
discovered that comets were extrape-
Gus TO our atmosphere, and since then
times have Improved. can see that
trade is steadier and potatoes run less
to tops than they did before.
Soon after that they discovered that
comets all had more or less periodici-
ty. Nobody knows how they get IL.
All the astronomers had been watch
ing them day aud night and didn't
know when they were exposed. but
there was no time to talk aud argue
over the question. There were 200 or
800 comets all down with II AZ once.
II was no exciting time.
Comets some,'mes live TO great
age. This shows that the night air is
not 20 Injurious TO the health a. many
people would have Us believe. The
great come, Of 1880 b supposed to
have been the one thai uas noticed
about the time Of Caesars death. ~
q. a.. and stili when II appeared In
N~.-snas. lime 4 IOn vAae~ altar ira
nrst grand farewell tour. Ike said that
II was very well preserved Indeed aud
seemed 10 have retaiued s,l Ito facu'.
ties in Sood shape.
4 SAts ~rtter - astrseemg sad that
sbs so6stasce ~ tAs DeSUlosety naA
the tell 10 of almost incoucsivabis
ieuuity. He ssid this. and then death
rame to bic relief.
Another writer ssys OF the st-and
its tell that the curvature Of the lat
ter sud the scceierstion OF the periodic
time 10 rbe case Of Eucks's comet In.
dicsts their being affected BY . resist.
ing medium which has never been OBJ
served TO have the slightest influence
on the planetary periods"
do not fully agree with the emil
nent authority. though be may bs
right. Much fear has been the result
of the comets appearance ever since
the world began. aud II b ~ good q
thing TO worry about ~ anything l
now Of. II We could get close to q
comet without frightening II away We
would und tba, We could walk through
II anywhere ~ we could through the
glare Of = tOrchiight procession. We
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