Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 375
length. It passed perihelion, or the point in its orbit nearest to the sun (iromJ>eri, near,and helios, the sun ), early in August of thisyear. The comet was moving very rapidlyamong the stars, and in a northerly direction, sothat at this writing it is in the northern heavens,just below the bowl… … TELESCOPIC VIEW OF THE BROOKS COMET OF I9OO. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 563 occupy, and a large number of good observa-tions should be secured. At one time thiscomet was within six degrees of the North Star.
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