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Evening Star, Issue 17637, 16 April 1921, Page 10

Another famous comet expected next summer is the Eneko comet, which was first seen in 1&56. Each time this comet sweeps round the sun it is in advance of its time-table, based on the law of gravitation, by a small, hut indefinite interval. and its orbit is consequently being progressively shortened. At one time it was suggested that this was caused by its having to pass through a resisting medium in space, but more recently periodical encounters with meteoric systems have been assigned to account for its accelleration. Whatever the cause, the slow construction of ite orbit, peculiar to this comet alone, must inevitably result in its final disappearance from the solar system by falling into the sttn.