“COMET 8-1916” EXPECTED SOON;
GERMAN ASTRGNOMER’S DISCOVERY
NEW YOIiK, Unless something
unexpected occurs the world will wit
ness this spring a great heavenly phe
nomenon—a mighty comet blazing
forth night after night with its tali
sweeping an immense arc through the
heavens, a source of terror tu the su
perstitious and of intense interest tu
all.
Wc may have absurd scares among
usually vrcll balanced people, who be
lieve the tail of the comet will sweep
the surface of our Mother Earth with
devastating effect. The tenuous na
ture of all comets renders them a
source of uiinor danger, as astrono
mers agree and we have little to fear
from the vast inass of nebulous ma
terial, even though enveloped in it.
"Comet tl-1916" is the name of the
stranger. It is so called because it
was the second comet discovered last
year. Professor Wolf of Koenigstuhl,
detected the rushing body's faint pic
ture on a photographic plate last April
and proceeded to telegraph the news
to observatories all over the world
with great Joy.
The statement that the. new comet
will he a monster rests principally on
the fact that It was discovered when
fully 400.000,000 miles from the earth,
just within the orbit of the great
planet Jupiter.
All comets increase grcatlj in size
and brilliancy as they approach the
sun. If such proves io be the case
this time, "Comet-lJ 116" should
make a great Impression.
The comet Is now on the other side
of the sun, whose greater luminance
conceals It. Earth, sun and comet
have Just passed conjunction, as the
state in called when the three bodies
are in line.
From now until May, conditions will
become Increasingly favorable for ob
servation. In a few months the comet
should be visible to the naked eye in
parts of the earth suitably situated.
At present the cornet. Is approach
ing the earth at a rate of more than
n million miles a day. i
ll is now situated in the sky just
north of the constellation Libra and
about lii degrees northwest of the up
per end ef the Scorpion. These con
stellations arc near the sun, appearing
in the early morning hours just pro
ceding sunrise.
On January 1 the comet was still
i more ttian 300,000.000 miles away, its
perihelion passage, or nearest ap
proach to the sun, is due next June. I
The path of the comet has not yet
been accurately plotted, but dozens of
astronomers are working on it with
I complex tables and extensive mathe
I matical calculations,
t Astronomers have not decided
| whether all comets return to the sun
j or not. Some of them appear to have
parabolic orbits and fly off into space,
never to see the solar system again. j
Cut their supposed parabolic orbits |
may simply be elliptical orbits.
I
Hut there are numbers of comets i
known to be permanent members of
the solar systm. They accompany 1
the sun and its planets in its onward
journey through space. While the
orbits of the planets are nearly cir
cular, all comets fly alone in grea'ly
drawn out ellipses.
Some comets are satellites of the
larger planets and fly about these cold 1
bodies instead of around the sun. If
a comet happens to come close to a
major planet on its journey toward
the sun it may lie "cap'ured” and from
then on have its orbit permanently
changed to include the planet. Jupiter
is known to have quite a large family
of captured comets.
Comets are the largest in size and
the smallest in mass, per unit of size,
of all known heavenly bodies.
Almost every comet consists of a
bright nucleus, a coma, or "hair” sur- j
rounding the nucleus, and a long tail.
The tail always points away from j
the sun. The comet comes up to the 1
sun, goes around it with ttie tail mak- I
ing a great sweep and finally "backs" !
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away, facing the sun with its tail be
hind it.
The nucleus, although it appears
sometimes as bright as a first mag
nitude star, is believed to tie no more
than a swarm of metoric particles
These are evidently bound together by
a loose bond of gravitation.
The head of Donati’s comet was
t!50,000 miles in diameter, while the
head of the comet of 1811 measured
more than a million miles through at
its greatest magnotude. As the comet
approaches close to the sun the head
serns to deminish in size.
TIi** tail develops as the comet ap
proaches the sun and head contracts.
The great corned of 1843 had a tail
more than 200,000.000 miles in length
and the comet of 1882 had a head
200,000 miles in diameter a id a tail
100,000,000 miles long, or farther than
the distance from the sun to earth.
The coned of 1843 actually passed
j through the corona and within 32,000 I
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» miles of the sun's surface, and only
• its enormous velocity of several hun
j died miles per second saved it from
actually falling into the sun.
MOLYBDENITE NOW ADDS
TO WEALTH OF
TERRITORY
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A molybdenite claim discovered by
('has. Cartwright and Joe Quyot about
eight miles from here gives promise
ol being one of the biggest and most
valuable mines in the vicinity of Skag
way. says the Alaskan, itecen* assay
tests made in Juneau show values
taken from this prospect to run from
$500 to $1,000 a ton.
A tunnel has been driven 50 feet ^
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into the mountain side and the fur
ther in it goes the richer the ore be
comes. This molybdenite was first (
discovered m the surface rock and |
traced along a blanket vein, Hu feet
wide, for a distance of mote than one
and one-half miles.
There are very few molybdenite
mines in the world, and the value of
the ore is great since it is a good
substitute for platinum and tungsten. 1
The metal is practically non-fuslble.
The ore occurs in foliated masser or!
scales, and is lead grey in color, with
a metallic luster. In feeling it is soft
and like graphite.
The metal is used largely for hard
ening steel, especially the steel used in
the large fighting machines of Europe. |
Mr. Cartwright said that if they j
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