TWO COMETS
CUNNINGHAM’S & ANOTHER NOW VISIBLE FROM NEW ZEALAND. EXCITEMENT FOR ASTRONOMERS. tßy Telegraph—Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON. Tins Day. The discovery last night of yet another comet, also visible to the naked eye, but not as bright as the one discovered on Saturday morning, has plunged the astronomical world, figuratively speaking, into excitement. It has also solved the problem of identity. Last night at Hawcra, Mr Townsend, ;> well-known observer, definitely located Cunningham's comet in the place in which it ought to be if the calculations after the original discovery in September last wore correct. Hence the comet first seen on Saturday is an entirely new and unheralded one. Its discovery at present seems to be to the credit of Mr R A. Mclntosh. Auckland. Cunningham's cornet is about fifteen degrees away from the brighter comet and rhould be visible early in tile evening, low down ;n the southwest sky and in the morning low down in the south-east sky, below its brighter companion
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 6
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163TWO COMETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 6
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