THE AUSTRALASIAN-t ««•«' • Moving a parabolic caret Very ctoarty. 1U Identity unn to be Improbable, but the two comet* may have had a common oetgfti.PKRRISKS PERIODIC COMET. *«TWe comet ha* been detected by Kakamunn It *u phked up on the 29th of Novninber, at Cli JB, SOmin., the right a*-enion at the time being Mi. I, (unn., declination north, (‘•leg. SSnnn. The prot»aLI. 1.4. .# .It ... J V- . A.tolaaable date of periheliou would be al'out October 20 leaf. The •tellar magnitude of the obJ#*'t »a« about IICOMET PONS WIN NFC KE.Combining lb* data of 1915 and 1!*2J. J»r. from-melln. of the C!reen«lrh Obaervatory. ha* oh tained a lalue of the period of thla comet by the uae of Tlweisnd'a criterion; he neglect* all per-turtotu.ua with the eiceptlon of thoee by Jupiter. I)r. Crununelin obtain*, under thcae condition*. a value for th* l*riod ”* 2800 * ** iU »*rturhatlon* during the prevent revolution are Itkelv to lengthen the period by a few day*, the next paa«age of periheliou fthould occur in late June or early July. 1927. The approach to the earth at thla dute a ill b* nearer tluii that of June. 1921.THE JURIST.INTERESTING DECISIONS.