Comet fever in Aust.
Australians are catching the Halley’s Comet fever in a big way. At least two airlines are offering special cometviewing flights from several big cities so that passengers may view the comet while sipping champagne and without the worry of interference from cloud or fog. The “Sydney Morning Herald" ran a full-colour picture of the comet on Tuesday, in a photograph occupying most of the top half of the front page.
The newspaper also issued a 12-page lift-out supplement devoted to the comet.
Books on the subject are selling well, one by a New Zealander, Brian Greig, already reaching 60,000 readers. The same book has sold 8000 in New Zealand, but it has been on the market only three weeks, and even less time in the South Island.
Mr Greig said in Christchurch on Friday that schoolchildren had begun using computer programmes in Australia to get a graphic illustration of how the comet will move in relation to Earth.
They can also obtain details of the actual position the comet will appear in the sky and the time of day it will be visible from any position on Earth.
He recently gave an outdoor lecture on the comet to 2000 club cyclists in Victoria, who had to share the use of five telescopes.
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Press, 10 February 1986, Page 20
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