Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 35
-locities of many milesper second,until visible displacements had Fig. 3—Halleys Comet of 1835. taken place in their positions. This, however, is as nothing compared with themighty range in space and the enormous period of theorbit of the great comet of the year 1811 (fig. 4). Thiscomet is, on the… … 24 SPACE, which has caused enormous tails to be thrown out fromComets which have come within a few million milesof him, or even within less than a quarter of his owndiameter, it flourished forth a tail 120,000,000 of milesin length. Its orbit has, according to the calculations ofthe astronomer…
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