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Promising one of the heavens' most brilliant spectacles in recent years, the new Peltier comet, first of the season, gives indications that it will become visible to the naked eye just before sunrise during the latter part of July. No other comet has swum into man's unaided ken since...
...first award of the Association's merit prize will be made Saturday evening to Leslie C. Peltier, of Delphos, O., one of the most distinguished amateur astronomers in the world--the discoverer of comets and of a nova. Mr. Peltier is known as the outstanding observer of variable stars in America. He is about 30 years old, is employed by a garage in Delphos, and has never been to college...
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...
...comet will be called either "1933" or "Peltier," after its discoverer, a notable variable star observer who was one of the discoverers of the famous Peltier-Whipple-Sase comet of last year...
...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 that the comet now bears the name Peltier-Whipple-Sase