Word: halley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that what they are looking for is there, somewhere: a planet as big as Earth, but some 35 times farther from the sun (well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both of which were postulated by astronomers before telescopes sighted them...
...authors' vanity and cash alone had been involved, Assistant U.S. District Attorney Rudolf Halley would have had no case.* But as Attorney Halley made clear, vanity was the mere come-on, and something more solid than glory was dangled ahead. Mr. Flumiani's authors were generally poor and innocent enough to fall for the flagrant letterhead, "A Fortune To Gain In Each Fortuny Book"; and Mr. Flumiani was ingeniously equipped to hand out whatever further encouragement was needed...
...binoculars. A faint feather, the comet is crawling down the western sky, after dusk, toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila). It will get brighter this week and next. Toward the middle of January, if it develops as astronomers hope, Cunningham's comet should be the brightest since Halley's great comet...
...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 through the tail of Halley's comet in 1910 and no one but astronomers was the wiser...
...Unheralded reappearance of Halley's comet...