Word: comets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen years ago Clarence Augustus Chant, longtime professor of astrophysics at University of Toronto, gave a talk on a comet, in his usual simple lyrical style, to a group of amateur astronomers. When he had finished a stranger went up and shook his hand warmly...
Discovery of the first comet on record since 1933, which was sighted Tuesday ninth at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa, was announced to the North American continent yesterday by the Harvard Observatory. The message was related to Cambridge from Copenhagen...
Although several comets are usually seen each year, none were discovered in 1934, according to Observatory officials. The new comet is described as "Fairly bright," but is too faint to be distinguished by the naked eye. It s of the tenth magnitude, and is located 90 degrees away from the sun and minus 51 degrees in declination. Although at present it may be observed only in the southern hemisphere and as far north as the Georgia-Florida boundary line, it is moving steadily northward at the rate of approximately one degree...
Second Day. Still far in the lead were Britons Scott & Black in their De Havilland Comet Grosvenor House. Behind them as they sped over the Bay of Bengal for Singapore were Parmentier & Moll. At Allahabad these two had lost valuable minutes when they carelessly took off without one of their passengers, had to return to pick him up. Two other Hollanders, Asjes & Geysendorfer, smashed their undercarriage landing at Allahabad. Their mishap put Turner & Pangborn in fourth place, which soon became third when they passed the Mollisons at Karachi. The Mollisons left there two minutes later, got lost, developed motor trouble...
Third Day. Biggest sensation of the race came just before dawn of the third day, when burly Lieutenant Scott and dapper Captain Black flew their scarlet Comet into Darwin. They had covered the last 300 miles over water on one motor, risked death landing on a field made soggy by the first rain in seven months. Said sandy-haired Lieutenant Scott: "We've had a devil of a trip." But they had flown 9,000 miles in two days, had broken the England-Australia record of 162 hr. in the unbelievable time of 52 hr. 33 min., were only...