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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...
...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...
...examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been 400 mi. in diameter. It nicked the Earth from northwest to southeast, scoured 40,000 sq. mi. of the Piedmont, ripped over 150,000 sq. mi. of ocean...
...several odd jobs to do on the way. Followed by a comet's tail of attaches and Japanese reporters, he went from Tokyo first to Mostow, where he attempted, to arrange for Russian recognition of Manchukuo. Soviet officials remained coy but indefinite. Russia is genuinely anxious to sign treaties of non-aggression with her neighbors, but she can see no advantage in recognizing Manchukuo without first receiving such a treaty from Japan...