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The comet is constantly called 'Miss Mitchell's comet' in the monthly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society at London, and in the 'Astronomische Nachrichten, the well-known astronomical journal, edited by Mr. Schumacher himself, at Altona. "Last winter I addressed a letter to Mr.
As it draws nearer the comet sends out some fan-like projections toward the sun, enclosing its nucleus in filmy wrappings like a cocoon of light, and it travels faster and faster. From its head shoots out a tail it may be more than one growing in splendour and width, and always pointing away from the sun.
The whole responsibility of the transaction he divided, in truth, between the Dowager and the comet, which just then hung over the world, filling the soul of the excellent Landgrave with dismal apprehension. The Queen of England was highly incensed by the actual occurrence of the invasion which she had so long dreaded.
Then a blast of burning air swept shrieking and howling across the earth, for now the planet Terra was rushing at her headlong speed of nearly seventy thousand miles an hour through the ocean of fire-mist into which the shattered comet had been dissolved. Then this passed. The cool wind of night followed it, and the moon and stars shone down once more undimmed through the pure and cloudless ether.
He was an old bachelor, of a small independent income, which by careful management was sufficient for all his wants. He revolved through the family system like a vagrant comet in its orbit, sometimes visiting one branch, and sometimes another quite remote, as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connections and small fortunes in England.
A faint and vapory comet lurked on the horizon like a ghastly messenger scarcely discernible to the human eyes, yet vaguely ominous and suggestive a spirit-ship it might be watching in silence to bear away the souls of those lost at sea! There was deep stillness unbroken, save by the lapping and plashing waters.
Before taking final leave of my shore experiences at the Naval Academy, I will recall, as among them, the superb comet of the autumn of 1858, which we at the school witnessed evening after evening in October of that year, during the release from quarters following supper.
Think of steering a two hundred-foot projectile through space, when we're moving at the rate of one hundred miles a second!" "Great, isn't it?" commented Jack. "It would be a bad thing if it ever got away from us," said Mark. "Yes; or if we steered into a comet." "That's so. We may run into one of those things or a shooting star."
For a few short days they would not believe an assertion which their intellect, so long employed among worldly considerations, could not in any manner grasp. But the truth of a vitally important fact soon makes its way into the understanding of even the most stolid. Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet.
She was snagged and lost in 1814, but by that time others were in the field, first of all the "Comet," a stern-wheeler of twenty-five tons, built at Pittsburg, and entering the New Orleans-Natchez trade in 1814.
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