Word: comets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently clocked over a Hundred in one-tenth of a second less than Tolan's time but whose record was too recent to be considered by the Federation last week. It did make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting blocks, Simpson threw away his blocks and went out to practice. He said that in the 100-vard dash...
Reports of a new tenth magnitude comet were received Saturday from the observatory at Hamburg, Germany by the authorities of the Harvard Observatory. Discovered by the astronomers Schwassmann and Wackmam, this newest addition to the realm of celestial spheres has a tail two degrees in length...
Looking at a photograph of the sky made five days ago, Harvard scientists were able to spot the comet in its orbit. The photograph was made as part of the daily routine of the Observatory...
...Press, with characteristic gusto, last week continued to lionize the new trans-Neptunian planet (TIME, March 24). Equally characteristic were despatches from England stating that British astronomers doubted the discovery, despatches from Germany referring laconically to "the Comet Lowell," despatches from France stating.that French astronomers had discovered over 100 planetoids during the past year...
...about 6.30 o'clock in the evenings now an observer can distinguish the comet with his naked eye a little north of due west. Calculations which have been made of the comet's position for each day until April 10 indicate that it will be nearest the sun on March 28, growing gradually fainter after that date...