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...earth's favorite playmates in the lonely vastness of space is the Gia-cobini-Zinner comet, which sweeps around the sun in a lopsided orbit once every six and a half years. In 1933, two sweeps ago, the earth passed within 500,000 miles of the place where the comet had been 80 days before. The result: a gaudy shower of meteors...
...Harvard astronomers circled the Boston heavens last night in a "flying planetarium" to record the effects of the meteor shower from the comet Giscobint-Zinner...
...astronomers also gave assurance that the display would be visible without intruments if weather conditions were good. They indicated that a comet which sails under the name of Giacobini-Zinner is responsible for this affair, and that this body will be only 131,000 miles away from the earth during the next three days...
Remnants of the disintegrated comet, Giacobini-Zinner, the meteor stream will be visible for only a few hours according to Watson. He hopes the display will be observable over all New England, but he admits the possibility that "Only the Chinese...
...Giacobini-Zinner comet travels in an orbit extending as far as Jupiter, requires six and one-half years to get around...