PONS WENNECKE COMET
PROBABLY WILL NOT BE SEEN HERE AT ALL. Dr. C. Tf. Adams, Government Astronomer. referring to the much-discussed eomet Pons Wennecke. stated yesterday that it was extremely problematical whether the comet would be seen at all in the southern hemisphere. It was moving northward all the time, but the manner in which its flight was being influenced by other bodies—which alone could accurately measure its movements had pot been calculated. Such a caleulation would probably involve two years’ work by skilled mathematicians, and it had not been done. The comet s northern trend was likely to be such that it would not bo virible in the southern hemisphere though some of the meteors flashing in the train of the visitor mi o ht said also that the heavens were full of wonders at the present time, and the Observatory at Kelburn was being visited by, large numbers of people Jrom all part* of the district.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5
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158PONS WENNECKE COMET Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5
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