Edwin Holmes (born maybe 1842,[1] – died 1919)[2][3] was a British astronomer. An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ...
He discovered the periodic comet17P/Holmes on November 6, 1892, for which he was awarded the Donohoe Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Comet Hale-Bopp Comet West For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). ... 17P/Holmes is a periodic comet in our solar system, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. ... is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) was founded in San Francisco in 1889. ...
, 3-182, Holmes writes that different astronomers had calculated its distance from twenty million miles to two hundred million miles and had determined its diameter to be all the way from twenty-seven thousand miles to three hundred thousand miles.
, 56-316) announced that, upon Nov. 6, Holmes' comet had been 36,000,000 miles from this earth, and 6,000,000 miles away upon the 16th, and that the approach was so rapid that, upon the 21st the comet would touch this earth.
The three comets expected were Holmes' Comet (1892 III), Finlay's Comet (1886 IV), and Kopff's Comet (1906 IV).
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