Word: cometted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confirmation of the discovery of the first new comet of the year, noticed on the night of Wednesday, February 15, was made yesterday by F. L. Whipple, astronomer at the Observatory. L. C. Peltier detected the comat by telescope at Delphos, Ohio...
Little is known about the comet, which is not perceptible to the naked eye. It is believed to be nearer to us than to the sun, but whether it is coming or going will be a matter of conjecture until photographs show an increase or decrease in brilliance...
...comet will be called either "1933" or "Peltier," after its discoverer, a notable variable star observer who was one of the discoverers of the famous Peltier-Whipple-Sase comet of last year...
...strangest things about the comet, Whipple pointed out yesterday, was the fact that at certain times it suddenly flares up and becomes one hundred times as bright as its normal luminosity. Many ideas for this variation in brilliance have been set forth by astronomers all over the country, but few of them seem to give any valid reason for it. Whipple stated that one of the more feasible is that there may be a great cloud of meteor dust, not unlike that which surrounds Saturn, through which the comet is at present passing; and it is the gases that...
...year 1932 was one of the best comet years in recent history when 14 were either discovered, or reappeared after a long absence. On August 9 Whipple observed a new comet on a photographic plate. The photograph was taken with a one-inch lens and the body can be discerned on a clear night with the naked eye. The comet was seen a few hours earlier by Peltier, a variable star observer in Ohio, who saw it without a telescope. In California a Japanese vegetable grower, named Sase, who was busy with his lens saw it also with the result...