Word: comets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astronomers at the University Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, have thus far been unable to observe the second magnitude comet that their colleagues at the Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, discovered on Sunday...
Charles A. Federer of the Observatory respected that scientists in Los Angeles and Flagstaff, Arizona, saw the new comet yesterday but that Boston is too far north for the comet to come over the horizon while it is still dark enough...
...Wallace become an apologist for Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...
During its whole visit, the comet acted as if it wanted to dodge human observation. Astronomer Leland E. Cunningham of the University of California, who worked out its orbit from data collected in Australia, reported that it slipped out of space on the far side of the sun. Sweeping around the sun within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible...
...crossed northern skies at night, it would have been brighter than Halley's comet of 1910., and almost as bright as the comet 1910-A of the same year...