rordame's

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He, moreover, determined accelerative velocities outward from the sun of definite condensations in the tail, indicating for its materials, on Brédikhine's theory, a density less than one half that of hydrogen. This conclusion applied also to Rordame's comet, which exhibited a year later phenomena analogous to those remarked in Swift's.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition