Word: comets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comets don't always oblige the comet fanciers. Last week a bright but furtive comet called 1947-N was already 100 million miles from the earth and rushing toward the dark outer fringe of the solar system at 35 miles a second. Only the southern hemisphere got a good look when it was near and bright...
...comet's head (probably a collection of small, meteorlike objects traveling together like a swarm of bees) had separated into three parts. Its tail (gases driven away from the head by pressure of the sun's light) had dissipated. Only astronomers with powerful telescopes could follow the departing visitor as it moved across the sky toward Capricorn...
...discoverer of the comet, possibly an observer on a ship at sea, is still unknown. When this yet unnamed comet leaves our hemisphere, it's a 75-year wait before another comet circles...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, announced yesterday that his station in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, had just recorded a comet described as the brightest since the discovery of Haley's comet in 1910. Sky-minded newspapers in South Africa and New Zealand had reported spotting the comet on Wednesday...
Local observes can glimpse this latest celestial phenomenon, which has a tail 25 degrees long, within the next few nights, possibly with the naked eyes. Those going comet-hunting for the first time should look into the sky just after sunset to the left of the area where the sun sets...