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Comets.It is now established that there was a nebulous object near Newman's comet on the evenings of June 25 and 29. U.A.I.Circ. 392 contains a letter from Dr. Schmitt stating that he observed the object visually on June 29 with the Algiers equatorial, and also found it on his plates he then examined the two exposures made on June 25, and found two images that indicated nearly the same motion as that of Newman's comet, which was registered on the same plate. On the first four days of July, observers at Bergedorf, Neubabelsberg, Heidelberg, Norwood, Yerkes failed to find any companions to Newman's comet, but on July 6 and 7, M. Delporte photographed two companion bodies at Uccle. Computations by Dr. M. Davidson make it unlikely that either of these is identical with the object of June 25 and 29.
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Astronomical Topics. Nature 130, 137 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130137a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130137a0