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A TELEGBAM from Copenhagen reports that Peltier, at Delphos, Ohio, discovered a comet on Jan. 20.000 U.T., its approximate position being R.A. 21h 20-0, Dec.+ 28° 0′, and its magnitude 8. A later telegram states that Beljawsky saw the comet several hours earlier and found that its daily motion was +5m 48s in R.A. and -0° 13′ in declination. He gave the magnitude as 8 and estimated the tail to be about 1°. Other observations must have been available to Karstedt, who has computed the orbit and ephemeris given below; as the observations are very rough, the orbit cannot be regarded as more than provisional.
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New Comet and Super-nova. Nature 143, 155 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143155f0
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