Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 135
oneend of the ellipse only half as far and the otherthirty-five times as far from the sun as we are.We know that there is nothing supernaturalabout the comet, that it does not mean war ordeath. Yet there are many people even in thesedays who are frightened because they havelearned that Halleys… … Th>E&>?f?TH FIG. I. SHOWING THE ORBITS OF THE EARTH ANDHALLEYS COMET. Usually a comet has a bright spot in the headwhich is called the nucleus. This is made upof solid matter. Around this is a hazy masscalled the coma or hair, which is made up ofgas. This gas streams at one side into a…
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