Word: comets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orbit of the Wilkes comet has been computed, it was announced yesterday by Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory. "The comet," Professor Shapley stated, "has been observed in Copenhagen. Berlin, and at the Mt. Hamilton Observatory of the University of California in Berkeley. This latter station has forwarded its calculations to us for redistribution...
...University Observatory last night announced the discovery by L. C. Peltier of Delphos. Ohio, of a new comet, on Wednesday night. The new comet is of the eleventh magnitude, and its image is very diffuse. It is near the Big Dipper...
...Temple for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. The stars were in the building's domed ceiling, marked there by the resident host of the convention, President Daniel Walter Morehouse of Drake University, 53, famed astronomer, discoverer of the Morehouse comet. There is a story at Drake that when the ceiling was first completed and the lights turned on, Dr. Morehouse scanned the celestial charade, pointed to one bright speck among the thousands and exclaimed: "That star does not belong there. Take it out." But that, to scientists, is a prosaic...