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...variable star symposium will be held in Building D of the Observatory this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Speakers will include Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and Dr. F. L. Whipple, the comet expert of the staff. Also speaking will be Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Dr. T. E. Sterne, and Miss Henrietta H. Swope...
Considerable controversy has taken place during the vacation regarding the failure of Comet Cunningham to show up more clearly. Professor William H. Barton of New York's Hayden Planetarium has ridiculed it as "a washout and a rank failure...
Leland E. Cunningham, the Observatory astronomer who discovered the comet, has countered with the statement that if has lived up to expectations as far as astronomers are concerned...
Loring Andrews, former teacher of astronomy here, tried to pour oil on troubled waters with an article in the M.I.T. Review. He suggested that the comet had been coming this way for 2000 years, and was too tired to glow. Its last appearance here, he said, "was probably about the time Archimedes was crying 'Eureka...
Astronomers cannot say in advance just how bright a comet will be, because they do not know how much tail it will acquire when it approaches the sun-for the tail of a comet consists of very thin material driven away from the head by pressure of solar radiation. So far, according to Harvard, the Cunningham's tail is developing "very, very nicely." It was more than 1,600,000 miles long last week and still growing. It is possible that the earth will pass through the tail. If so, no harm will be done. The earth probably swept...