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COLLISION WITH A COMET.I'htt lark • C«ta«lropli*. Wovld Nmr r*r I he Rartfc.Although It Is exceedingly Improbr Me thfit the esrtb may be destroyed by collision with s comet or some huge meteor, still the fuct that such a contingency Is possible is sufficient ground for discussion on the subject and for imagining what the result might be, says the Woman's Home Companion.The earth is moving around the sun at a velocity of eighteen miles a second, while the sun. with all Its attendant planets. Is being hurried on toward the great flery constellation of Hercules at a far greater velocity. The very fact that small meteors exist proves the possibility of the existence in space of meteors of Inconceivable magnitude, Even great Marie dead worlds may lit* In our path, like breakers in the path of a ship. Fifty miles a second is not nn unusual velocity for heavenly bodies, und some are known to move at a speed even In excels of a hundred mil'**- a second, five hundred time* ihespeed of a rifl** ball. Small meteorites, whh h reach the earth fit a velocity of front twenty to thirty in.lcs a second,I are Instantly consumcst by the friction! generated wit I* the atm* vpla ;*•. Largemeteor*, how* ver. oceutfiomdly reachthe enrth. plug destruction fromtheir sj*e. but re fartnd P have ;Jjlt;- r *• urfr.ees Jnsed from la at prorated t ythe pnssuge through the atisa phoro,] Although it h Uu\ ) »at |lt; si U tpossible, that the earth may some time ffi'ftutibr such a ‘•L-wi r - I -n...11 a,--non- pi*rhapi in »Ji»* Iona f a • aj.it, that tic* heat of t' u;utiMi«n fr« m f;— j tion w;tb our mmm-pherc imd tip rob a {rrses thereby ponerou 1UeMJtiA ,lli 1* II* life.• V |» t*4.
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Madison New Enterprise
Madison, Florida, US
Thu, Oct 16, 1902
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