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...team of scientists from Harvard and the Smithsonian Physical Observatory is still anxiously awaiting the ideal visibility of the cosmic nomad named Kohoutek in early January, despite reports from England that the comet is disintegrating...
William A. Deutschman, associate of the Harvard College Observatory and coordinator of Operation Kohoutek for the Smithsonian, said yesterday that the Smithsonian is the "clearing house for all world observations of Kohoutek" and has access to the best and latest information on the comet. "The Smithsonian's data does not show anything like this [the disintegration] happening," Deutschman said...
Whipple said that by viewing Kohoutek, he hopes to confirm his "dirty snowball" theory, which holds that the comet's nucleus is composed of dust particles imbedded in the ices of simple molecules of water, methane and ammonia...
...best time to view Kohoutek is on January 10, "just as twilight is deepening in the southwest evening sky," Whipple said...
...last week, two of the three Skylab 3 astronauts, Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Pogue and Physicist Edward Gibson, worked outside their giant orbital station, set up cosmic-ray detectors, made repairs and prepared to take their first good look at Comet Kohoutek. The Thanksgiving Day walk in space, longer by 3 min. 2 sec. than the record jaunt of the Skylab 2 astronauts, marked an auspicious beginning for a historic journey: the last and, NASA hopes, longest (84 days) of the three Skylab missions...