Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Recent investigations have shown that the light from the new planet is 10,000 times fainter than that of the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye. The Harvard astronomers are now trying to obtain more information concerning the planet by examining photographic plates that have been exposed in past years...