Abstract

THE receipt of observations from Australia, made between September 8 and 16, has allowed of the determination of the orbit of the present comet exclusively from positions obtained before the perihelion passage when it made so close an approach to the sun. From a mean of the Melbourne and Windsor N.S.W. observations on September 9, and the Melbourne meridian observations on September 14 and 16, Mr. Hind has deduced the following orbit:—

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