HALLEY’S COMET.
Napier, May 13
Father Allen, of Meeanee Observatory, writes as follows, under to-day’s date 1 — “ Halley’s Comet was visible to the naked eye this morning through 35 degrees of the heavens, and through 18,000,000 miles of its length. The passing of the moon from the morning sky allows us now to see the whole of the tail.
“ There can no longer be any doubt that the earth will pass well within the tail of the comet, with at least three million miles to spare.
“Careful measurements from photographs, taken this morning, show that the head of the comet is seventy-nine thousand miles through (fifteen million miles from the head). At the place the earth will enter on Thursday evening next, the width of the tail is somewhat more than two million miles. The earth will, therefore, spend at least fourteen hours in the journey through the tail.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 839, 14 May 1910, Page 2
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149HALLEY’S COMET. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 839, 14 May 1910, Page 2
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