A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 440
ly unexplained phenomenon was a faint,straight-edged beam of light, or sheath that accompanied thecomet, enveloping the head and projecting three or four degrees infront of it, as shown in the figure (Fig. 208). Besides this, at dif-ferent times, three or four irregular shreds of cometary matter… … Fig. 208. — The Sheath, and the Attendants of the Comet of 1882. Possibly they may have been fragments of the tail which belonged to thecomet before passing the perihelion, or of the matter repelled from thecomet when near perihelion. Since the comet, in passing the perihelion,changed the direction…
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