The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-21

Ashamed of itself becallse of the
Comet fiasco night, the heavens viii
Etage an astral double-header MondeA
blight that will surpass anything the
fcelestial tramp has encountered in his
centuries Of wandering about tho sun.
Just as the comet is blazing In all
It's splendor in the western sky, there
viii be total eclipse of the moon
over towards che eastern horizon. The
SHADOW of the eclipse will make the
bonnet shine all the brighter, and it
Viii be a spectacle such as never be
Mre has been witnessed on the eartht
About $3.50 o'clock the comet will
make its appearance. The moon will
have been up half an hour before and
ut 9:46 o'clock will enter the shadow
Of the eclipse. At 1l.09 the eclipse
will become total and at II the total
eclipse will end. The moon will
emerge from the shadow at 1922 n. m
This will give observers the best
chance they have yet had to observe
The astral wanderer. The comet will
be visible in the western sky tonight
and Sunday night, but the darkening
Of, the heavens by the eclipse will
gave the best opportunity of all to
watch it.
Comet In west Tonight
The comet program as here outlin-
ed Is true so far as the head goes.
As for the tail, IL Is completely dis
credited by the astronomers. Ever
since its shameless action of the 9TH
er night, when it wagged itself out Of
line with the earth. ii has become a
pariah. No self respecting star gaz-
er will have anything more TO do with
tail which breaks its engagements
in that rude manner And so they
predict little or nothing about II.
Some of our best astronomers have
teen inclined to feel resentment to-
ards the comet for the way the tail
treated as the other night. They
seem to think that 1t is poor com
Q; that cant wag It's own tail, and a
few are wondering whether the tall
weren't after all, wagging the comet.
Just what happened when the tail
failed to envelop the earth the other
right is being explained. Experts
say It Is rare to see the streamer OF
comet, whose nucleus is intense ac'
tiyity, exactly straight. II any min
ute particle OF 1t be thrust from the
nucleus in opposite direction to that
os the sun, second later another
win shoot out forty times as far. NIL
lions of particles thus hurled away
viii thus form a curve.
Tail Spreads 1o7 Degrees
And when it Is considered how
many million miles away the comet
is and how many millions long It's
tail is, II is not at all remarkable
that such a tiny dot as the earth
should miss the streamer altogether.
The comet has gone through some
remarkable changes since last Sun
day morning when it was observed at
the Yerkes observatory. Not only
has II become more curved, but y
has assumed enormous proportions
The tail spreading over on arc OF 1Oi
degrees, reaching from the Eastern
horizon clear past the zenith and IN
10 the Western sky, covering nearli
two thirds OF the distance from hori
zon to horizon, one Of the longes'
comets ever observed.
The moons eclipse Monday night
coming at the time Halley's comet !
ON deck. will be watched with addeS
interest by the astronomers, "ho arr
lanxlons TO discover whether there VII
lbe auy unusual phenomena In the oe
j, euiati0H.
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