Academy, Saturday 13th November 1869
Winnecke's Comet.
Huggins’ spectral analysis of this comet is well known, and
his conclusion that the light of this comet is produced by incandescent carbon
vapour. The experiments of Watts—published in the October Number of The
Philosophical Magazine—seem to prove that this spectrum is really that of
carbon: and further, that the temperature of the carbon producing it must be
between 1500° C. and 2500° C. If no other explanation of this comet-spectrum
can be found, and if the temperature of cosmical space may really reach 1500°
C., important changes must be made in the theories of the universe as at
present accepted.
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