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similarly associated with the planets Saturn
and Uranus.
The physical transformations of comets
are among the most wonderful of unexplained
phenomena in the heavens. But, for phys-
ical astronomers, the greatest interest at-
taches to the reduction of radius vector of
Encke’s comet, the splitting of Biela’s comet
into two comets in 1846, and the somewhat
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