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Reports of a new tenth magnitude comet were received Saturday from the observatory at Hamburg, Germany by the authorities of the Harvard Observatory. Discovered by the astronomers Schwassmann and Wackmam, this newest addition to the realm of celestial spheres has a tail two degrees in length...
...Press, with characteristic gusto, last week continued to lionize the new trans-Neptunian planet (TIME, March 24). Equally characteristic were despatches from England stating that British astronomers doubted the discovery, despatches from Germany referring laconically to "the Comet Lowell," despatches from France stating.that French astronomers had discovered over 100 planetoids during the past year...
...orbit of the Wilkes comet has been computed, it was announced yesterday by Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory. "The comet," Professor Shapley stated, "has been observed in Copenhagen. Berlin, and at the Mt. Hamilton Observatory of the University of California in Berkeley. This latter station has forwarded its calculations to us for redistribution...
...about 6.30 o'clock in the evenings now an observer can distinguish the comet with his naked eye a little north of due west. Calculations which have been made of the comet's position for each day until April 10 indicate that it will be nearest the sun on March 28, growing gradually fainter after that date...
...University Observatory last night announced the discovery by L. C. Peltier of Delphos. Ohio, of a new comet, on Wednesday night. The new comet is of the eleventh magnitude, and its image is very diffuse. It is near the Big Dipper...