BIELA'S COMET.—The great swarm of meteors through which the earth passed on the evening of November 27, 1872, and which were found to be moving in the orbit of Biela's comet, must have been descending ...
The article focuses on trajectory design to the trans-Neptunian object (90377) Sedna for launch in 2029-2034. Sedna is currently moving to the perihelion at a distance of around 74 au from the Sun.
TEMPEL'S COMET, 1873, II.—We continue the ephemeris of this comet, for the latter half of June, as given by M. Schulhof in the Paris Bulletin International of May 7. If the calculated epoch of ...