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 254
ar system has been estimated by Kleiber (on certain hypo-thetical conditions) to be nearly 6,ooo. — D. P. T. Comets 199 but it may be remarked that while the aphelion ofHalleys comet is at about the distance of Neptune,a comet with a period of three hundred years wouldpass far beyond this outer… … THE GREAT COMET OF 1843 (On 2&th February, the day after its perihelion passagethis comet was distinctly visible to the naked eye at noo7i.Its approach to the Sun was the nearest ever made by anyknown comet, portio?is of its C07na being less than 50,000miles from the Surfs surface- Its velocity…
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