Word: cometed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skjellerup's comet will be visible for the first time from Cambridge due west just at sundown on December 19, according to an announcement last night by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...comet, which will be visible for two weeks following its first appearance, will be of the second magnitude and probably brighter than it was at first expected, said Professor Shapley. Skjellerup's comet is named for its discoverer, an amateur astronomer of Melbourne, Australia, and was first identified as previously undiscovered, according to existing records, on December...
...Hartman, Director of the Observatory of Laplata, Argentine cabled yesterday announcing the discovery of a comet with a tail on December...
...detailed observation was that the comet was of the right ascension, 16 hours, 27 minutes, declination minus 50 degrees...
...feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible to the naked eye 600 miles away. U. S. astronomers were advised not to suppose that the in creased luminosity of their horizon heralded the arrival of a new star or comet...