Word: skjellerup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skjellerup's comet, originally expected to become visible Monday night and which has not yet appeared here, will not appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky-wanderer is pursuing a course divergent from the one original computed for it and now seems to lie along a line passing through the earth and the sun, it will not be readily visible as at first believed. When it comes within range, it will be for only one nocturnal...
...Skjellerup's comet, due to appear on the western horizon this evening, may have been sighted just after sunset yesterday from the Harvard Observatory, it was learned at a late hour last night from Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...Skjellerup's comet will be visible for the first time from Cambridge due west just at sundown on December 19, according to an announcement last night by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...comet, which will be visible for two weeks following its first appearance, will be of the second magnitude and probably brighter than it was at first expected, said Professor Shapley. Skjellerup's comet is named for its discoverer, an amateur astronomer of Melbourne, Australia, and was first identified as previously undiscovered, according to existing records, on December...
...College Observatory has received word by cable of the discovery of a comet by Skjellerup, the South African astronomer, at Cape Town on November 26. The comet was described as faint, and the position given was in the constellation of Crater...