Excerpt from The Argonaut, Vol. 9 From this figure it will be seen that the comet's orbit does not recede with great rapidity from the body of our planet, and that it may possibly be visible until within a few de grees of the pole star, then the obliquity of its tail, as pre sented to earthly observers, combined with its then rapidly increasing distance, will render it invisible to the eyes, per haps the telescopes, of men and whether or not it will ever revisit our system will depend upon the exact curvature of its orbit, which will presently be a matter of record, as will also its chemical analysis through the medium of the spectro scone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.