Word: cometed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Astronomical Observatory has received by cable an announcement of the discovery of a new comet by the astronomer Skjellerup at Cape of Good Hope Africa. The cablegram came from the International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Brussels which sends word to the University of discoveries made observers in the castern hemisphere for the transmission to American astronomers...
...comet was observed on May 17 as its position on that day (.2500 Greenwich mean time) is given as right ascension 7 hours, 53 minutes, 44 seconds declination plus 19 degrees 39 minutes It was described as a fault object visible in a large telescope with a daily motion of 4 minutes of time easterly and 48 minutes of are northerly...
...University Astronomical Observatory has received by cable the information that a new comet has been discovered by Comas Sola, the director of the observatory at Barcelona, Spain. The information came in a cablegram from Professor Lecointe, who is in charge of the new Central International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams as Brussels...
...comet is described to be visible as yet only in a large telescope. It was discovered on January 13, and its position on January 13 (.5011 Greenwich mean time) is given as Right Ascension 8 hrs. 6m. 44s., declination, 22 deg. 23m. At present it is situated in the constellation Puppis, which is somewhat east of Sirius. Its daily motion is given as one minute 12 seconds west, five minutes and zero seconds of are south...
...details concerning the comet, except the particulars as to its position, have been received, and it has not yet been observed in America. From now on, however, it will be under close observation at Harvard and other observatories...