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...comets were visible to the naked eye last week. The fact was of scientific interest but the show was not spectacular. Discovered by a Japanese amateur named Sigura Kaho, one comet was a tiny blob hanging in the northwestern sky for a few minutes after sundown. The other was the comet found two months ago by Leslie C. Peltier, famed amateur of Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing...
...Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having mapped and explored a great section of New Spain. An energetic, restless, fast-traveling administrator, he introduced wheat...
...Hollywood, Cinema Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (Thin Man, Naughty Marietta) went bowling for the first time, forgot to let go of the bowl. Towed like the tail of a comet half way down the alley, he rose with a sheepish face, a sprained...
...super-nova recently discovered by astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory was a (1 gigantic star explosion, 2 new constellation of five large stars, 3 second Milky Way, 4 part of Halley's comet, 5 meteorite which fell in the Pacific...
Last week, after calculations of its orbit, Harvard announced that the comet was approaching Earth, had already increased in brightness from the ninth magnitude to the eighth. Now 120,000,000 miles distant, it will come within 20,000,000 miles (less than one-quarter of the distance to the Sun) before receding. At its nearest approach late in July, it will have reached the sixth magnitude, will be the first naked-eye comet since...