THE COMET.

Press, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5329, 4 October 1882, Page 2

THE COMET.

• i [Melbourne Pap**} . ' ".. f > s :fhs comet patted s .** morning <bf 'die 18th, and at Boon on ttep»* -; vhmS day waa plainly reen with ti« ™ix*a#« ;.-- aa every bright object within 43ef ei«f sun. From its apparent heavens it wa* thoaght probsbTe that irgg - continue txs move eastward*, and tl**jf ! *r seen in th* evening following 8* ,Ist,., ' Cloudy weather, however, bourne after .this, and no vie* of togg-!! " could be obteißed, From °™ m SS:--> secured on ond prior te the 17ti»r **!£_;, ''X orbit was-computed, which gave tasrewof: , _ ingappro-jffisteelemanfcas-— • '/", X Perihelion passage, September 17W M ... -y LonritoS-efnode _852«e*t ' . Longitude of perihelion ... 378*** W» #* Inclination E& ' ' Logarithm of peritel. distance ZtjSQ B < «■ '• . Motion—Bstrograd*. w . Prom these it was found tte co®rt "J* .-. swspt-telf around the sun in lew &&_*'£' ■ hoars, and otter this stupendously «*» .. .excursion was returning with a wssbMv . -aotion over, apparently, nasrly tte srew cart of tte heaven* in which it first appeare*. D?would therefore te again riribS to*** \-/ early mosniog before sumia*. _ ~ .«* ; S A telegrari from Mr 3todd, of ****8 : , on the S2od, stated, the comet "fJJJJJJ l-'.-l sum* person rising twenty minute* ** u %2Zj¥*<* , sun ontte2M aad again attw*at^nuii^ past five on Bridsy morning, tits S3atf. *«* v Momenta of the calculated orbit »b*w «« "J ' __ Todd eb nwday evening, fcwa|*«fJ£ 'f-*. would reo that » was *g*m riribfo * "■ ■ttt^--^-^_s____!.-' tad*. It ie - 1 "" : lt a *_^»lßßl,.aJaVft^^^ {< * * even ttet in brightens. J^£JK**>' approximate orbit »* te^*t^2r^_*aoas* ;

br4«i___J ;' -iit SB «**S^«fo«ißhto_iss^|iWß»« _S^-__a!-> l & 1 »_ 23,000 *__2S aad eastoig enormo-s vdsaaie 3fteof *w«W«_ff ejected from the sun ,-_S?TO » w_fprob*bly 6.f0-nd to be '=*25 bek*_feg tot&s«_esystsmii_ovmg 1-»_lt the same orbit. . . *nf«ssstaay be looked for during tea Jfc rK *& at half-p-st fonr to the __s__» few degress ■«__ of «"tl_-J* father west and a Htfle "■•SKSrtSstS'Mr Todd,otAdMc, lt j