THE END OF THE WORLD.
i Mr RA. Proctor, the eminent astronomer, writes that a very conspicuous i comet which was visible in the heavens i in 1843 was supposed to be the same as that which visited the earth in 1 660, and that many astronomers were eoni vinced it was the same. They had i calculated its distance from the sun in ;' itf6X) tT |ttJj^ distance in 18S3, and it . orbit very much nearer to the sun in , 1843 than it was in 1660. Mr Proctor , said the same comet would come again in 1 897, and that the next time it came it would be so much nearer to the orbit , of the sun, and the sun's attractive ; force would in all propability prevail ' over its centrifugal force, and that it would be drawn into the sun with all its meteoric train, the result being that there would be such accession of heat that he thought it was possible the ' world and all therein should be burnt 1 up. -
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1081, 1 May 1882, Page 2
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172THE END OF THE WORLD. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1081, 1 May 1882, Page 2
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