THE NEW COMET.
MrEllery, Government Astronomer, Victoria, mentioned to tho members of , the Royal Society that we may expect a celestial visitor hi three or four weeks' time m the shape of Pon's Comet, which is now travelling .towards: us. . lie does not anticipate : that ; it wilL- be a Aery prominent object m the heavens, though it is possible it might be a bright come^. . Adverting to ;tbe Vecent red si|nsetg, Mr Ellery repudiated the }ilea of volcanic dast. There were only two reasonable hypotheses, the one being that the earth was now parsing through ■ a. meteoric region, resulting m the refraction of the sun's rays, and the other, that there.was an nnnsual quantity of moisture m the higher strata of the atmosphere. As he had already stated m tho Press, he inclined to the latter hypothesis. - {
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 39, 14 January 1884, Page 2
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137THE NEW COMET. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 39, 14 January 1884, Page 2
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