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THE recent important investigations of Hoek on the origin of comets may be said to have opened out quite a new field of astronomical research of the highest importance. We are glad, therefore, to lay before our readers an abstract of a continuation of the work which we owe to Professor Kirkwood, who has communicated it to Sillimans' Journal. Professor Kirkwood has dealt with the comets 1812, i. and 1846, iv.
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Astronomy: Kirkwood on the Origin of Comets. Nature 1, 115 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001115a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001115a0