Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 247
vestigations showed that itwas moving in a short ellipse with a period of about5\ years. It was not, however, seen again until1858, when it was rediscovered as a new comet by near the Sun a large part of the cometary substance is renderedinvisible by evaporation, just as a cloud or fog might be. At… … Comets 193 Winnecke at Bonn, who, after determining its orbit,noticed its identity with the discovery made by Ponsnearly forty years previously. Hence it is generallycalled Winneckes comet. It was observed again in1869 and 1875, but not in 1863 and 1880, when itspositions were very unfavorable. It…
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