Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 239
tedmany freaks, — the nucleus atone time having the shape ofa star-fish, seen obliquely atone side of the globular massof the comet, and later a sin-gle straight filament or tailshot out a long distance fromthe coma. At subsequent re-turns no physical phenomenaof especial interest have… … encke (1791-1S65) Comets 191 Another very remarkable periodic comet is thatknown as Bielas, the periodicity of which was de-tected at its return in 1826, when it was discovered the next few days it was near the limit of visibility with the30-inch telescope at Nice. At the return of this comet in…
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