
	Where results make sense

Topic: Great Daylight Comet of 1910

Related Topics

Great comet

Coron, Palawan

Waldenses

Propylaea

List of Chicago White Sox people

Mediasphere

In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Great comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, any comet which becomes bright enough to be noticed by people who are not actively looking for it and becomes well known outside the astronomical community may come to be known as a great comet.
		A crucial factor in how bright a comet becomes is how large and how active its nucleus is. After many returns to the inner solar system, cometary nuclei become depleted in volatile materials and thus are much less bright than comets which are making their first passage through the solar system.
		Comet Halley, for example, is usually very bright when it passes through the inner solar system every 76 years, but during its 1986 apparition, its closest approach to earth was almost the most distant possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_comet (565 words)

	Articles - Great comet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This means that the peak brightness of a comet depends significantly on its distance from the sun.
		Any comet approaching the sun to within 0.5 AU or less may have a chance of becoming a Great Comet.
		Equally, Comet Hyakutake was a rather small comet, but became bright because it passed extremely close to the earth.
	www.oldion.com /articles/Great_Comet (517 words)

	THE BRIGHT COMET CHRONICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the premier comets of the 20th Century - a brilliant, multi-tailed object that was briefly visible during the daytime.
		Comet moved toward the southwest, crossing Crater and Hydra, its slightly curved tail growing rapidly to 25 degrees in length by the opening of November.
		Comet traversed Pisces, Aries, and Taurus, its brightness declining quickly: 1st magnitude on April 7th, 3rd on the 13th, 4th magnitude by the 21st.
	encke.jpl.nasa.gov /bright_comet.html (6109 words)

	Great Daylight Comet of 1910 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Daylight Comet of 1910 was a great comet which upstaged the much-anticipated appearance of Halley's Comet in the same year.
		It was already visible to the naked eye when it was first noticed, and so many people independently 'discovered' the comet.
		When Halley's Comet returned again in 1986, many older people's accounts of having seen it in 1910 clearly referred instead to the Great Daylight Comet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Daylight_Comet_of_1910 (135 words)

	Starwatch - Comet Hale/Bopp, Lunar Eclipse
		Comet Hale/Bopp, showing signs of becoming one of the greatest comets this century, is poised to enter the evening sky around March 16.
		One of the greatest comets in recent memory is the great comet of 1811, mentioned in the novel, "War and Peace".
		This comet was, in one important aspect, the antithesis of comet Kohoutek; it appeared to be a run of the mill comet until just a week before it's peak when it suddenly brightened beyond the brightest stars at the end of February.
	www.tmclark.com /Starwatch/3_5.html (976 words)

	Comet Halley
		It is a periodic comet with an orbit that brings it back to the vicinity of the earth every 74 - 80 years (the variation is due to small effects on the orbit by the outer planets).
		The comet may have been observed from Ch'omsongdae Obsservatory, built in the mid-7th century and the oldest surviving astronomical facility in Asia.
		Here is a picture of the nucleus; it is about 16 x 8 x 8 km in size, and the picture shows clearly the gas streaming away as the ices in the nucleus are melted and evaporated by the heat of the sun.
	ircamera.as.arizona.edu /NatSci102/text/comethalley.htm (687 words)

	Daylight Comet of 1910
		It was independently found by so many people in the southern hemisphere that no single original discoverer could be named, though the first astronomer to see it appears to have been Robert Innes on January 17, 1910, at the Cape Observatory in South Africa.
		Most observers judged the comet to be brighter than Venus, giving it a magnitude of about -5.
		It upstaged the much anticipated return in 1910 of Halley's Comet.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/Daylight_Comet_1910.html (136 words)

	PSR Discoveries: Hot Idea: Comet Hale-Bopp
		In addition, near perihelion, comet tails can extend millions of kilometers in space (making them the largest objects in the solar system), thus depending on the geometry of the orbit, the tail can have a length projected against the sky which is a large fraction of the celestial sphere.
		Brahe made measurements of the position of the Great Comet of 1577 and determined from its parallax that it was a distant object, much farther away than the Moon, and therefore not an atmospheric phenomenon as many had believed.
		Although he died before the prediction could be verified, the comet was recovered on January 21, 1758, and it was named in honor of him (usually comets are named after their discoverers).
	www.psrd.hawaii.edu /Feb97/History.html (1160 words)

	Minnesota Starwatch for January 1997
		How a comet is perceived by watchers on Earth, whether it turns out to be a "great" comet like the Daylight Comet of 1910 or a relative dud like Comet Kahoutek of a number of years ago, depends on a combination of intrinsic factors and sheer luck.
		To be spectacular, the orbit of the comet must carry it near the sun, so that solar heating vaporizes the volatile ices of the comet and releases trapped dust to form the eye-catching "tail" of the comet.
		When a comet of great magnitude passes close to the Earth, as happened in January of 1910, the results are something never to be forgotten by anyone lucky enough to have seen them.
	www.astro.umn.edu /outreach/starwatch/starwatch0197.html (804 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since it is visible at the same time as the sun (a daylight comet such as the Great Daylight Comet of 1910) we can conclude it approaches from the sun's sector of the sky.
		And it shall be in the month of October that a great movement of the globe will happen, and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth has lost its natural balance and that it will be plunged into the abyss and perpetual flness of space.
		The great earthquake is caused by the impact.
	www.ping.de /sites/hal9001/Nostradamus_1999-eclipse.txt (4957 words)

	The Book of the Damned: A Hypertext Edition of Charles Hoy Fort's Book
		The observed diminuation of the period of Encke's Comet during several periods led to an explanation of a "resisting medium," which retarded the speed of the comet and consequently shortened its period.
		In 1880, Oppolzer claimed that Pons' Comet exhibited the same phenomenon; and, the main opponents to the "resisting medium" were Von Asten and Backlund, who attempted to account for the changes in these comets' periods by planetary perturbations.
		Two principal fears were that the comet would possible collide with the earth and that poisonous cyanogen was discovered to be in the comet's tail, which was expected to sweep over the earth as the comet passed between the earth and the sun.
	www.resologist.net /damn10.htm (4074 words)

	Untitled
		A comet is a "dirty snowball" - a collection of dust, grit and water ice - frozen by the cold temperatures in the outer solar system.
		In March 1995, Comet Hyakutake was brighter than Halley in 1986, being well visible in the Northern Hemisphere.
		Comets have highly elliptic orbits, and spend most of their time in the outer solar system, frozen and inactive.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /ad.johnson/text/beyond.htm (1215 words)

	A Brief History of Vermont Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Comet Halley was visible at magnitude 0.0 and a tail 25 degrees long.
		Comet seen in early morning sky at magnitude -2.0 and with a 90 degree long tail.
		Comet was in evening sky at magnitude 0.0 with a 30 degree long tail.
	www.uvm.org /vas/articles/VTAstroHistory.html (1731 words)

	SPACE.com -- Predicting the Next Bright Comet
		Such magnificent spectacles as these are set apart from all the other comets that are visible in a given year as being stupendously bright and/or fantastically structured, perhaps developing a tail that stretches a third of the way or more across the sky.
		And some of these comets were at their best chiefly for those living in the Southern Hemisphere, as was the case in 1941, 1947 and 1948; northern observers saw little or nothing.
		And for a comet that attains an extreme brilliance of at least minus 3 magnitude or brighter (approaching/exceeding Venus in brightness), it could be even longer; for such dazzlers, we might have to wait roughly 25 to 50 years between appearances.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/050701_bright_comets.html (2165 words)

	Comet Prophecy
		Scientists think comets may be responsible for first bringing water and organic material to Earth by crashing into its surface during a period of heavy comet activity 3.9 billion years ago — around the same time as the first signs of life.
		Comets - frozen balls of dirty ice, rocks and dust - are leftover building blocks of the solar system after a cloud of gas and dust condensed to form the sun and planets 4 1/2 billion years ago.
		On July 5 (at 26 Lib 48 Tropical, Geocentric) the comet passes its perihelion at a distance of 1.51 AU from the Sun, that is almost exactly on the Mars orbit (1.52 AU), and on July 7 (at 27 Lib 50 Tropical, Geocentric) it passes its Node (viz.
	www.newprophecy.net /comet.htm (11993 words)

	Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
		Compared to the large number of bright comets that had been seen during the 19th century (some could even be seen in daylight) the 20th century had faired rather poorly.
		The comet was predicted to enter the inner solar system, putting on its best show, around the Spring time of 1997, almost two years hence.
		Hyakutake had the second longest tail on record (after Halley in 1910) and although its nucleus was physically smaller than Hale-Bopp's, it came to within just 0.102 AU (9.5 million miles/15 million km) of the Earth - one of the closest approaches of any comet in history.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Hale-Bopp/Hale-Bopp.htm (3348 words)

	The Finding of Comet SOHO 2002 C4: A Comet for New York
		Hunting for SOHO’s comets has become very competitive, with the vast majority found by a core group of about a dozen highly skilled and experienced observers, many of whom have distinguished themselves through their dedication to finding, observing, and studying comets, online and in many cases in the night sky as well.
		Two of the recent LINEAR comets, 1999 S4 and 2001 A2, both underwent significant fragmentation; the splitting of the latter comet boosted its brightness by a factor of about 100, no doubt due to the large amount of dust and gas released as several fragments broke from the nucleus.
		I was drawn to comets because of their surprising nature; their often unexpected arrival out of the depths of space, their tendency to travel in orbits that take them far beyond the bounds of the zodiac, and their dramatic variations in brightness and appearance.
	home.earthlink.net /~tonyhoffman/cometfornewyork.htm (2857 words)

	The Comet is Coming!
		We know now that there are many comets and that they vary in the time they make their periodic reappearance from 3 1/2 to 3,000 years.
		This was one of the most beautiful comets with a tail of 50 million miles long, curved and very wide at the end.
		The last of the important comets of the nineteenth century was The Great Comet of 1882.
	www.cutglass.org /articles/art1443.htm (946 words)

	2007 (Part One)
		In recent years the 1950s saw two comets that were quite bright, the 1960s and 1970s each witnessed one major sighting, the 1980s were celestially vacant of comets, and two very memorable comets were each seen a year apart in the 1990s.
		The serpent could be the comet itself, taking on the form of a hydra or dragon as 1950s Russian cosmologist Dr Immanuel Velikovsky theorised a close encounter with Comet Typhon did during the time of Exodus.
		It is remotely possible that Nostradamus was speaking about a comet with two brilliant heads surrounded by a coma (cloudy particles of gas and dust that surround the head of a comet) similar to Comet LINEAR A2 which appeared in the southern hemisphere in May-July 2001.
	www.newprophecy.net /2007part1.htm (3523 words)

	March 13 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was also the first to see the Daylight Comet of 1910, though this comet was found independently by so many people in the Southern Hemisphere that no single "original'' discoverer could be named.
		British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell, which was a great improvement over the voltaic cell used in the early days of battery development.
		The zoopraxiscope, an optical apparatus invented by Eadweard J. Muybridge (1881) to exhibit photographs of moving animals, was shown at the Royal Institution in the presence of the Prince of Wales.
	www.todayinsci.com /3/3_13.htm (1985 words)

	The Man from the Sunflower Forest: A Loren Eiseley Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. He is alone because he has the intellectual capacity to know that he is separated by a vast gulf of social memory and experiment from the lives of his animal associates.
		The great white wolf howled until her ululations echoed against the stars.
		Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds.
	www.nedcomm.nm.org /~cmhaynes (4453 words)

	May 2003 Meeting
		During the last century, several ‘great’ comets graced our skies, some of them like Bennett’s Comet in April 1970, and of course who could forget Hale-Bopp in 1997, will live long in the memories of those who saw them.
		There was the Great Daylight Comet of 1910, and Halley’s Comet in the same year, Comet Arend-Roland in 1957, Comet West in 1976 and Hyakutake in 1996.
		A highlight of that decade was a trip to the Canary Islands to view Halley’s Comet during its 1986 return.
	www.eaas.co.uk /meetings/200305.html (433 words)

	Astrology Dictionary
		The core principles of astrology reflect general principles, which were universally accepted in the ancient world, that events in the heavens must have analogies on Earth.
		From China to Babylon, the apparently untoward movement of a comet across the otherwise orderly movement of the heavens was taken as a portent of disaster: the very word still contains its "star" root, aster.
		Even Ptolemy - one of the great astrologers of antiquity - recognised it and recognised that it contains the sun once a year.
	www.astrology.dictionaries.ro /index.php?title=Comet (3780 words)

	Prophetic Messenger Service - Powered by ForumCo.com - The Forum Company
		He is also likely to be the pope who flees the Vatican when a great star burns (Q2.41) since the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, the old Vatican-in-exile until 1378, would be the logical place to escape to.
		Pope John Paul the Great died on April 2, 2005 -- near to the forty-second anniversary (6 x 7) of the death of Pope John XXIII on June 30, 1963.
		Ah, but a pope who must flee the Vatican when a great star burns so brightly that it looks like a second sun; when nuclear weapons and Fuel Air Explosives are bursting like deadly but beautiful "suns" on the horizon; and when southern France is ravaged by enemies and "the sun halts in its path"...
	mm2001.forumco.com /post~method~Reply~TOPIC_ID~502~FORUM_ID~10.asp (3822 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is my account of the visit of Halley's Comet in 1985/86.
		There was a very bright comet named Hale-Bopp which appeared some years later in 1997.
		In 1910 when Halley's Comet last appeared there was similar confusion with the great comet of 1910 which was visible in daylight and many mistook this for Halley's less visible comet.
	freespace.virgin.net /tomjen.carlisle/p6-1.html (91 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We know from VI.6 that a pope dies when a comet appears towards the north.
		Line 1: Comet more visible from Northen hemisphere Line 2: Aug 99 sun will be nearly out of Cancer and moving into Leo, so comet is approaching Earth from behind the sun.
		Quatrain II.41 The great star will burn for seven days and the cloud will make the sun appear double.
	mars.gh.wh.uni-dortmund.de /nostradamus/Pope1999.txt (397 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		So, it is fair to say that the "King of Terror/ fright/ great fear" is the overall consensus view which has stood the test of time and is shared by most commentators.
		Line 1 and 2: The great star is a comet, and the cloud the coma.
		We have a clear and concise description of the passing comets effects here: flooding and possible pole shift (October), as well as the accompanying meteorites as the comets tail is passed through.
	www.rense.com /ufo4/quat.htm (7262 words)

	hegel.net - Illustrated Hegel Biography V. 1.07.07
		These three friends seemed intent on forcing their contemporary theologians into the daylight, grudging any aid they might hope to obtain from Kant's postulates of God, as a crown for the edifice of their traditional Ethics.
		Spectral analysis (a method used today to distinguish between Comets and Planets) was unknown in those days, so Piazzi could not be sure whether this was a Planet, a Comet, or some other body, but it was surely a significant body between Mars and Jupiter.
		By contrast, the model of Hegel was found in those works of national art in which art is not a separate part, but an aspect of common life, and the artist is not a mere individual but a concentration of the power of beauty and the passion of the whole community.
	www.hegel.net /en/hegel.htm (11123 words)

	NATURAL PHENOMENA TODAY IN
		There was a smell of sulphur and a noise 'resembling thunder'.
		1910 The great Daylight Comet was discovered by some South African diamond miners, four days before perihelion.
		1698 A month of great snow and frost in England.
	www.phenomena.org.uk /today/January.htm (548 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)