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THE NEW COMET.—The comet of which the discovery was announced in the last number of NATURE is likely to prove a very interesting object. A communication from Prof. Krueger informs us that Dr. Berberich, who is probably in possession of ephemerides of the lost comets depending on various dates of perihelion passage, has noticed the coincidence in the position of this comet at the first observation with that which De Vico's comet of 1844 can assume. It will be remembered that it was this same astronomer who conjectured from somewhat similar grounds the identity of Holmes' comet with that of Biela. But the conjecture in this case seems to be better founded, for elements computed by Dr. Leuschner show a decided similarity with those of De Vico, as computed by the late Dr. Brunnow from the 1844 observations. Seeing that the comet has undergone some fifty years' perturbations since that time, and that the present elements are founded on the observations of but three consecutive days, and can only be considered as roughly approximate, we must be prepared for some considerable deviation.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 51, 132 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051132a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/051132a0