Book, Chapter
1 0, Int | remarkable works, his “Off on a Comet” must be given high rank.
2 0, Int | it.~In one way “Off on a Comet” shows a marked contrast
3 0, Int | impossible. The earth and a comet are brought twice into collision
4 0, Int | places are carried off by the comet and returned uninjured.
5 0, Int | uninjured. Yet further, the comet snatches for the convenience
6 0, Int | right side up again upon the comet’s surface. Even ships pass
7 0, Int | in actuality, if ever a comet should come into collision
8 0, Int | possible results. If the comet were of such attenuation,
9 0, Int | on the other hand, the comet had even a hundredth part
10 0, Int | same year with “Off on a Comet,” 1877, was published also
11 I, XV | sun? Might it not, like a comet, be carried away into the
12 I, XXIV | echoed Servadac, eagerly.~“My comet, my comet!” said the voice,
13 I, XXIV | eagerly.~“My comet, my comet!” said the voice, so low
14 II, I | had uttered had been, “My comet!”~To what could the exclamation
15 II, I | off by the collision of a comet? and if so, was it implied
16 II, I | implied that the name of the comet itself was Gallia, and were
17 II, I | hundred and twenty-fifth comet in the catalogue; but his
18 II, I | with what he called “my comet”; and that theory being
19 II, I | either of the first two, the comet, after once appearing within
20 II, I | path of some particular comet.~“I wonder whether these
21 II, I | Perhaps after all the comet has had nothing to do with
22 II, I | that the earth and this comet have been in collision,
23 II, I | the catastrophe was the comet itself; and the velocity
24 II, I | Timascheff; “and it is to this comet that our scientific friend
25 II, I | apparently be interested in the comet so much more than in the
26 II, I | the 31st of December, a comet, crossing the ecliptic,
27 II, II | to the discovery of the comet was being contested or denied;
28 II, II | there was a collision; my comet grazed the earth; and the
29 II, II | are we?”~“You are on my comet, on Gallia itself!”~And
30 II, III | PROFESSOR’S EXPERIENCES~“Yes, my comet!” repeated the professor,
31 II, III | been grazed by an unknown comet, which had caught up some
32 II, III | voluntary resident on your comet, Mr. Professor, I beg to
33 II, III | conjecture that it must be a comet, and this opinion was soon
34 II, III | development of a tail.~A comet! The discovery was fatal
35 II, III | quarter of the firmament.~A comet! No time must be lost in
36 II, III | calculate the elements of a comet, it is always deemed the
37 II, III | ascertaining the elements of a comet, three different positions
38 II, III | the five elements of the comet which was evidently advancing
39 II, III | or the point where the comet crossed the terrestrial
40 II, III | position in space of the comet’s orbit was determined.~
41 II, III | calculating the longitude of the comet’s perihelion.~4. The perihelion
42 II, III | parabola.~5. The motion of the comet, as being retrograde, or,
43 II, III | calculate the date at which the comet would reach its perihelion,
44 II, III | that the existence of the comet was utterly unknown elsewhere;
45 II, III | the conclusion that the comet would strike the earth somewhere
46 II, III | crushed to death, or the comet might have remained in adhesion
47 II, III | to the effect that if the comet had happened to strike against
48 II, III | caught up your bit of a comet and worn it like a feather
49 II, III | demonstrated the path of the comet; but, in consequence of
50 II, III | shock has entailed upon my comet’s orbit, I have been compelled
51 II, III | was the projection of the comet into a new orbit altogether.”~“
52 II, III | obstacle. The nucleus of the comet, being excessively hard,
53 II, III | touched obliquely; if the comet had impinged perpendicularly,
54 II, III | collision, the character of the comet’s orbit has been changed?”~“
55 II, III | Then it must be a periodic comet?”~“It is.”~Servadac involuntarily
56 II, III | professor, “Gallia is a periodic comet, and allowing for the perturbations
57 II, IV | great fact that Gallia was a comet and gravitating through
58 II, IV | continued his own remarks, “The comet then, I see, is to reach
59 II, IV | future collision between the comet and the earth; and in the
60 II, IV | complete my account of my comet Gallia, I require to know
61 II, IV | the earth.”~“Pretty little comet! nice little comet!” muttered
62 II, IV | little comet! nice little comet!” muttered Ben Zoof.~The
63 II, IV | announced that the volume of the comet was 47,880,000 cubic miles.~“
64 II, IV | lieutenant.~“Nice little comet! pretty little comet!” said
65 II, IV | little comet! pretty little comet!” said Ben Zoof.~The professor
66 II, IV | insignificant dimensions of his comet pointed out in so disparaging
67 II, IV | aloud; “charming little comet! so pretty; and so modest!”~“
68 II, IV | just as sensitive about his comet as the orderly was about
69 II, IV | surface, the volume of my comet are settled; but there is
70 II, IV | resolved to find out what my comet weighs.”~“Would it not be
71 II, V | his prediction that the comet would again touch the earth?
72 II, V | mass and density of his comet, as well as the force of
73 II, V | the substance of which the comet was composed, but they felt
74 II, V | observations of the elements of my comet. Three matters of investigation
75 II, V | If you want to weigh this comet of yours, I suppose you
76 II, V | earth’s attraction and the comet’s. Will you, therefore,
77 II, VI | weigh Gallia with it; my comet.”~“Merciful Heaven!” shrieked
78 II, VII | decimeter of the material of the comet.~“Now, gentlemen,” said
79 II, VII | the sole material of the comet, extending from its surface
80 II, VII | in density, at least, his comet had the advantage over the
81 II, VII | represents Gallia’s density.”~“A comet of gold!” ejaculated the
82 II, VIII | Except as to the time the comet would take to revolve round
83 II, VIII | collision with the earth, the comet had been continuously approaching
84 II, VIII | estimate of the duration of his comet’s revolution, had represented
85 II, VIII | character: first, that the comet, being irresistibly attracted,
86 II, VIII | almost seemed as if the comet had already been deflected
87 II, VIII | 1st of September that the comet had crossed the orbit of
88 II, VIII | forgetfulness of the charms of his comet; but no astronomical enthusiasm
89 II, VIII | The interval between the comet and Jupiter was, by the
90 II, VIII | the heavenly orbs.~As the comet approached the critical
91 II, VIII | nearest approximation of the comet to the planet. They were
92 II, VIII | which events had taken. The comet was pursuing an unaltered
93 II, VIII | certainty that the career of his comet was destined to be so transient,
94 II, IX | Jupiter’s attraction, the comet had been retarded for a
95 II, IX | 15th of January, when the comet would begin to re-approach
96 II, X | volcanic eruption, whilst the comet was still at so great a
97 II, X | too great to affect the comet’s progress more than had
98 II, X | not complain; their little comet, they knew, was far safer
99 II, X | sidereal universe? With his comet now under the influence
100 II, XI | the movements of the new comet.”~“True,” asserted the count. “
101 II, XI | doubt that the elements of a comet which has once come into
102 II, XII | CHAPTER XII~THE BOWELS OF THE COMET~The whole night was spent
103 II, XII | indefinitely upon his little comet. It is very likely that
104 II, XII | retard the course of the comet, and compel them to an indefinitely
105 II, XII | scarcely likely that the comet could supply the fuel of
106 II, XII | recent origin, because the comet before its collision with
107 II, XII | January dawned; and the comet was 220,000,000 leagues
108 II, XIII | possible particular about his comet, he was now devoting himself
109 II, XIII | monthly announcements of the comet’s progress, and he was able
110 II, XIII | Rosette couldn’t make his comet go straight back, could
111 II, XIV | said to be intolerable. The comet’s distance was scarcely
112 II, XV | know. By estimating his comet at a third as much again
113 II, XV | On the 7th of October the comet re-entered the zone of the
114 II, XV | regions on the surface of a comet.”~The major smiled incredulously;
115 II, XV | the collision between the comet and the earth, adding that,
116 II, XVI | he should soon lose his comet also, plunged him into an
117 II, XVI | of collision between this comet and the earth. The inquiry
118 II, XVI | gentlemen as you cannot make the comet go where you want it to
119 II, XVI | of power to prevent the comet and the earth from knocking
120 II, XVI | shock that would hurl the comet straight on to the earth,
121 II, XVI | that she would carry the comet along with her, as part
122 II, XVI | went on, “what part of this comet of ours will be the part
123 II, XVI | seems so. If the side of the comet on which we are resident
124 II, XVI | check to the velocity of the comet would be quite equivalent
125 II, XVI | suffocated, for all our comet’s atmosphere would be assimilated
126 II, XVI | the event of either of the comet’s poles being the point
127 II, XVI | be true, the speed of the comet, when suddenly checked,
128 II, XVI | that the temperature of the comet will be raised to some millions
129 II, XVI | was not possible for the comet to fall into the middle
130 II, XVI | asked.~“Why, to get off the comet before the shock comes.”~“
131 II, XVI | our getting free from this comet.”~“If the chances were ten
132 II, XVI | increasing in magnitude; the comet traveled 50,000,000 leagues
133 II, XVI | secret.~On the 15th the comet crossed the orbit of Mars,
134 II, XVI | Gallia, like Gambart’s comet, had been severed in twain;
135 II, XVII | conviction that although the comet still rotated on its axis
136 II, XVII | not revolving round the comet, but was gradually retreating
137 II, XVII | the rending asunder of the comet have upon its rate of progress?
138 II, XVII | alteration in the mass of the comet would not result in its
139 II, XVII | continued irritation. Had the comet been in any way projected
140 II, XVII | mutilation of his little comet. A fine thing, he said,
141 II, XVII | roared Rosette. “Gallia is my comet!”~“I deny it,” said Servadac. “
142 II, XVII | of never abandoning his comet, and swore positively that
143 II, XVII | 70,000 miles, that of the comet being little less than 138,
144 II, XVII | modified rotation of the comet caused it to be daylight
145 II, XVII | quitting the nucleus of his comet. Why should he trust himself
146 II, XVII | Why should he leave the comet? Why should he not go once
147 II, XVIII| from the surface of the comet, and which was now many
148 II, XVIII| fixed upon the abandoned comet, now floating about a mile
149 II, XVIII| be presumed that if the comet preceded the balloon in
150 II, XVIII| 20,000 miles between the comet and the earth!~The calculated
151 II, XVIII| Procope observed that the comet deviated sensibly in an
152 II, XVIII| wrote down the name of the comet, the list of the fragments
153 II, XVIII| companions, and the date of the comet’s aphelion; and having subscribed
154 II, XVIII| sunk to an altitude in the comet’s atmosphere much inferior
155 II, XVIII| yawning to receive the comet and its atmosphere, balloon
156 II, XVIII| previous computation, the comet had merely grazed the earth,
157 II, XIX | As to a collision with a comet, there was not the faintest
158 II, XIX | the latest arrival from a comet!”~But however great was
159 II, XIX | the appearance of such a comet as Gallia at all, and of
160 II, XIX | world.~The career of the comet was ever a mystery which
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