A BIG COMET.
HAS SEVEN TAILS. Received July 29. 8.H6 a.m. LONDON, Ju'y 28. The French astronomer Camille Flammarion states that a comet with seven tails, one of which is seven million miles long, is approaching. It is now a hundred million miles from the earth. The comet is visible early in the morning under Pleiades. (Pleiades is a close group of small stars in the constellation Taurus, very conspicuous in winter evenings, about 24 degrees north of the equator, and coming to the meridian at midnight inthe middle of November.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 30 July 1907, Page 5
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91A BIG COMET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 30 July 1907, Page 5
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