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WE find in NATURE, vol. xix. p. 347, some detailed particulars about the return of the comet 1867 II. (Tempel) in the course of the present year. In this article Sandberg's calculations are also taken into account. The real value of his studies about this comet seems to be but little known, as in other instances, as well, new calculations are based upon them. In the Astron. Nach. Sandberg has only given a very short account, of the results of his researches, and it is therefore but natural that their, real value must be more or less concealed. Sandberg has published the details of the first determination of the orbit in a special treatise (Specimen Inaugurale de Orbita Cometæ II., 1867, Zwollae, 1869), which seems to be not very, much known, and it is not necessary to read much of this work to make sure of the negative value of the calculations.
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VALENTINER, W. Tempel's Comet. Nature 19, 457 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019457c0
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