TERRIFYING COMET.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 22 (Supplement)

TERRIFYING COMET.

EAGER WATCH KEPT. WHEN PEOPLE PRAYED IN STREET Astronomers In all parts of the world are keeping an eager watch for the Temple comet, which nearly a hundred years ago produced such an fewe-lnsplring spectacle in the sky that thousands of people were prostrated with' terror, says a London paper. Dr. A. G. Grommelin, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, says a London paper, told a reporter that calculations made by astronomers indicated that the most likely date for the appearance of tlie comet was about the middle of November. "It is Impossible,” he said, “to guarantee that this prediction is accurate to within two or three months, hut it is estimated that the most likely date is the night following November IG. “ The comet may, of course, arrive here in the daytime, and in that event nothing would be seen. It is pretty certain, however, that there will be a good shower of meteors in some part of Ihe world.” In 1533 the comet produced one of tli| most wonderful effects in the sky man has ever seen. For hours the sky was alive with countless Ihousands of shooting stars, all radiating from one point. So terrifying was the spectacle that j thousands of people knelt in prayer in i ihe streets. I When the comet was next seen in i JSGG—ils last “personal appearance” I

-—l l l e though magnificent, was on a much smaller scale.