BRILLIANCE CLAIMED TO BE EXAGGERATED
Officials of Harvard Gollege Obsaryatory, California, were in radiotel'ephohe. communication yesterday with the director of the Carter Observatory, Mr. I. M. Thomsen. He learned that the position obtained regarding the new comet by H.M.N.Z.S. Arbutus, en route to Sydney from Wellington, was the only accurate information concerning the discovery available in United States yesterday. In this the Nayy did a very good job, he" commented.
Gonditions for observation iril Wellington were not favpurable last night. Mr. Thomsen is inclined to think that the early reports from Australia were exaggerated, and that as brilliant a comet was reported in 1927. It is unlikely that the new one can be classed as the most important since Halley's in 1910. The brightness of the comet, said Mr. Thomsen, was equal to that of a first magnitude star. . The length of tail was about one and a half degrees, or three times the ' diameter of the moon. It did not appear to be travelling very fast.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 December 1947, Page 4
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