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Phono 79
The Approach sf Halley's Comet
Historic Celcitisl Marvel, With
a Head as Large as tKc Moon,
Recently Sighted at Heidelberg,
Germany, Will Soon Be V isible to
the Naked Eye the World Over.
Hat Traveled Thouisrvds of Mil*
lions of Nilei In Its Journey
Toward the Sun ? Astronomi"*!
Expert Tells Why There I* No
Collision Possible With It. 0
By FREDERIC CAMPBELL.
[President of tho department of nutrono
my, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci
ences.]
jrt FTEIt an absence of seventy
/* live years Unit monster of tho
sky, Ilailey's comet, is close to
its return. Already it Is sight
ed and photographed after being
waited f?>r for years and looked for for
months. On Sept. 11 Professor Wolff
of Heidelberg observatory, Germany,
got hK great telescope' 011 the wan
dering son of the solar family and
wired all the principal observatories
to prepare to welcome the prodigal
home.
They are few who have access to
the great telescopes, but those who do
may now sight this celestial marvel In !
advance of the rest of mankind, who
will have to wait till DeccnAier to
gaze up n the wondrous spectacle.
Kveu without a telescope It Is of In
terest to know Just where the comet
now Is. Most people who understand
anything al>out the heavens are famil
iar with the curiously shade and bril
liantly studded winter constellation
known as Orion. This now rises soon ,
after midnight and by 2 o'clock in '
the morning Is well above those mists 1
that hang about the 'horizon. The t
bright whitish star at the west of the
rectangular figure Is Uigel. The bright i
reddish one at the cast Is Hetelgeux.
Looking off to the east of Hetelgeux :
another bright star Is seen. This is
Procyon, In the constellation Canls Ml- j
nor. A brighter star than either Is seen
southward ? that is, slrlus ? bright
est of all the fixed stars. Draw
imaginary lines connecting Hetelgeux,
Procyon and Slrlus and yon have a
great equilateral triangle. One-third
the distance along the line from Be
telge.au x to Procyon stands the comet.
It will not remain there, for It Is mov
tho two crossing points about Nor. 1
and May 1. It will thus be seen that
we make a good escape, though a little
narrow In the latter case, Inasmuch
as there Is a inargtu of only about a
month and a half at that point. But
even If the earth were at the crossing
points at the same time with the comet
nothing could happen for the reason
that the two bodies do not travel in
the same plane or on the same level.
At the first crossing the comet goes
over aud at the second It goes under
the earth, so that there is no danger
of collision at cither point any more
than there Is of collision between a
surface cur and an elevated train on
the one hand or between a surface car
and n subway train on the other. It
has been calculated that the nearest
possible approach of the comet to the
earth would be 0,000,000 miles, but we
shall be millions of miles farther sep
arated than that even when nearest.
Source of Comets Unknown.
It used to be believed that comets
were entirely irresponsible bodies, not
under the control of the same forces
that control the planets. It was not
perceived that the law of gravitation
has them in Its grip, as well as earth,
Jupiter and Saturn, and that they fol
low dellnlte and well known curves.
A comet orlglually comes from we
know not where. Something has shot
it through infinite space, and it hap
pens to pass within tho range of our
sun's gravitating power. At once It is
attracted toward the sun and compel
led to sweep down out of space and
around the sun before it is released.
Indeed, whether it shall l>e released Is
altogether a question. If the curve on
which the comet approaches Is what Is
known as a parabola or a hyperbola
It stands wide open at the farther end,
and the comet, having paid us a single
ORBIT OF HALLEY'S COMET.
ins with over Increasing speed ns it
uears the sun. but there is where It
Is now.
Traveled Many ilillions of Miles.
Now the questiou Ls raised, Where
has tills cornet beeu for seventy-five
years, and where does it couie from
now? We answer that it has beeu
away beyoud the orbit of Neptune, the
most distant world of our solar family
of which we have any knowledge. We
are staggered by the earth's distauco
of 03,000,000 miles from the sun, but
llallev's comet has been thirty-five
times as far as that and from that dis
tance ls returning to a point only 03,
000.000 miles from the sun, nearer
than the planet Venus. At its great
est distance, known as "aphelion." tho
snn would appear only as a bright star
and the cold would be so intense that
possibly air itself would freeze into
liquid form. At its nearest approach
to the sun that luminary would appear
immensely greater than seen from the
earth, uud the heat would do* up all
water courses and destroy all life, both
vegetable aud animal.
Now, although the comet can be ac
tually seen over only a very small
part of Its course of thousands of rail
lions of miles, such is the nature of its
curve that the wonderful science of
mathematics enables us to track it per
fectly. Let us therefore follow it in
imagination, just as we do a railway
train by studying the time table. About
last January the comet erosscd the or
bit of Jiii 'iter and was -130,000,000
miles from us. Nest February it will
cross the orbit of Mars and will have
taken 400,000,000 miles from its -dis
tance. About the last of March it is
expected to cross the orbit of the earth.
iVbout ten days later It will cross the
orbit of Venus. It will then swing
about the sun, reaching its perihelion,
or point of uearest approach to the sun.
May 10, according to oue calculation,
though according to another it may bo
there some time lu April. It then be
gins to push back into space again,
and in so doing It again crosses the or
bits of the planets about as follows:
Venus. May 2S; earth. June 19: Mars,
July 2 S: Jupiter, nearly a year later.
If the comet twice crosses the orbit
of the earth It becomes a question of
the utmost interest whether our globo
Is liable to )e run luto. It Ls reassur
ing to be toid that the earth will bo at
visit, sweeps back Into space and never '
again appears iu our sky. But If It bo
an ellipse It Is closed at both ends, and,
after a certain period of absence, back
It comes as certainly as tomorrow's |
sunrise.
The truth is that all tbo planets,
including the earth, are traveling
about the sun, not on circles, but on
ellipses, but their paths are only
slightly eccentric, while that of the I
periodical comet is extremely so. A ;
boy's round hoop when pressed out
of shape becomes an ellipse, and the
harder the pressure the more ellip
tical it becomes. Such Is the path of
the periodical comet. When the comet
is as near the sun as the earth Is, If
its speed be more than twenty-six
utiles a second it will describe a para
bola or a hyperbola and will never
come back. If It be less than the
same It will describe an ellipse and
will return at regular Intervals.
How Comets Are Captured.
The periodical comets are believed
to have been captured by some of the
planets. A comet comes Journeying
through space under the Influence of
the sun, intending to pay us but a
single visit. It passes so near great
Jupiter, for example, that its speed
Is slowed down below the critical
point. It is thereby compelled to
change its orbit to an ellipse and stays
with us for the rest of its life. Nep
tune is credited with capturing sir
comets, including Halley's; Uranua
three, Saturn two, Jupiter about thir
ty. One reason for believing that
there Is yet another undiscovered
planet beyond Neptune is that a cer
tain comet shows a curve which reach
es out to a distant point whore a
planet ought to be in order to account
for its introduction into our system.
Naming of the Comet.
It has been ascertained that the
period of Ilalley's comet is In general
about seventy-flve years, though it is
sometimes a little less and sometimes
several years more, the differences be
ing due to the influence of the planets
which it passes in going and coming.
This is therefore a historic comet and
by no means an upstart, for it has
recently been traced back to more
than 200 years before Christ
Considering how young the science
of astronomy is, think of being abla to
Identify appcarancce of this same com
et 111 all the following years: B. 0. 240,
A. D. 461, 700, 1066, 1145, 1222, 1301,
1878, 1466, 1581, 1607, 1682, 1759, 1885,
1910. la 1066 William tho Conqueror
was. terrifying England, and the comet
was looked, upon as an omen of terri
ble disaster. In 1456 all Europe was
moved to terror by this enormous
s^vord of light beld aloft nightly in the
sky, and the pope directed that to the
Ave Maria should be added the prayer,
"Lord, save us from the Turk, the
comet and the devil." It was at *hls
tlrao that the noonday call to prayer
by the ringing of church bells was In
troduced, which has never been aban
doned. In 1759 the comet first came
back according to prediction of the
great Sir Edmund Tlnlley, the friend of
Newton, and it henceforth took upon
itself his name.
There always has been and still Is
much of mystery rs to the nature of
coqiets. Where they came from no
one knows, but they are in the unl
veree Journeying through space. When
first sighted a comet looks only like n
faint nebula changing its position
among the fixed stars. As it draws
nearer the sun it becomes brighter and
begins to shoot out a tall. Yet nearer,
the head can be recognized as quite
distant from the tali and a bright core
at the confer of the head called the
nucleus. Great comets like Halley's
are described as presenting a head as
large as the moon, shining with the
brightness of Venus and stretching out
the tail over one-third of the sky. Hal
ley's comet has shown a tall forty-five
decrees long, which Is equal to n pro
cession of ninety full moons. As It
does not always appear the same. It is
likely on the present occasion to have
a length either greater or less.
Peril In Its Head.
The head of a comet Is the dangerous
part, constating probably of a mass of
particles like stones, held together by
their .mutual gravitation. The Increas
ing heat of the sun as It approaches that
body develops vapors, which envelop
the nucleus and are drlvcu lmck Into
space In the form of the tall. It is note
worthy that the tall always streams
away from the sun, going before the
head when the sun retires Into space.
This, so long a mystery, Is now be
lieved to be due to the pressure of light
from the sun, so great a force that not
less than 70,000 tons of It ever rest
upon the earth's surface. The tall Is
extremely thin, so that the faintest
stars can be seen through a million
miles of its thickness. The earth has
once or twice passed through a comet's
tall and suffered no harm. If, how
ever, there should occur a bead-on col
lision with the nucleus It would not
only be the end of the comet, but might
seriously damage if not ruin the earth.
If nothing more, It would be likely to
Introduce noxious gases Into our at
mosphere, which would as swiftly pro
duce death as the descending fumes of
Mont Pelt*. Wo have already shown
that no collision Is possible with Hal
ley's comet, nor as long as we believe
that human history Is yet to be con
summated and that a divine plan lies
back of the universe can we indulge in
now antiquated fears. Nothing is less
probable, even astronomically, than a
cometary collision. However, there Is
some ground for believing that in that
strange curiosity of the plains, Coon
Butte, Ariz., we have the evidence that
Just once a comet struck the earth, but
if so, whether before or after the ad
vent of man, we have no means of
knowing.
Halley's comet will not be an appari
tion of a moment, like a meteor, nor
of a week or two, like tho moon. On
its last appearance it was visible the
larger part of a year, and certainly for
months we shall have our sky, partly
at night and partly in the morning,
transformed by the presence of this
not unwelcome stranger. It will be
s.een the, world. over. Peary at-tho
north pole and shackleton at the south
polo would ench be cheered by Its
radiance, and seventy-five years hence
a very few very old men will trem
blingly point to the heavens and say
that In their youth they saw yonder
spectacle once before.
SERIAL No. 0857.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO HOMESTEAD.
U. S. Laud Office at Juneau, Alaska.
Oct. 2, 190D
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
CHARLIE H. AN WAY, a citizen of
tho United States over twenty -one
years, residing In tho District of Al
aska, noar tho town of Haines, in
said District, has applied to make
entry, uuder Section 2289, Revised
Statutes of the United States, andi
tho act of March 3, 1903, of the
lands embrace in U. S. Non-Mineral
Survey No. 206, sltuato near Haines,
Alaska, and more particularly de
scribed as follows, viz: ?
Bog. at Cor. No. 1, Identical with
Cor. No. 4 Sur. No. 207, a stone
set lu ground marked "S 206 C 1",
from whence U. S. L. M. No. 073
bears S. 67 deg.,17 mln. E. 80.76 chs;
tlicuco West 15.94 chs. to center of
creek 4 Iks. wide, 21.13 chs. center
of crock 3 Iks. wide, 23.19 chs. center
of creek 5 Iks. wide, 30.63 chs. center
of Government Road, 35.02 chs. to
Cor. No. 7, Sur. No. 205, 40.00 chs.
to Cor. No. 2, a stone set in ground
marked "S 206 C 2"; thence North
8.93 chs. center Government Road,
16.00 chs. center of creek 4 Iks. wide,
>0.40 chs. to Cor. No. 3, a stone
marked "S 206 C 3"; thenco East
6.89 chs. center of creek 6 Iks. wide,
13.89 chs. center creek 4 Iks. wide,
15.05 chs. to center creek 3 Iks. wide,
24.10 center creek 12 Iks. wide, 39.98
chs. to Cor. No. 4, a stone marked
"S 206 C i"; thenco south 8.5 chs.
to Cor. No. 5 .jur. No. 207, 30.40 chs.
to Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning.
Area 121.57 acres. Magnetic Variation
31 dcg. 00 mln. East.
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