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PONS' COMET.—It appears that this comet was sufficiently conspicuous to attract the attention of unscientific passengers on board one of our mail steamships in approaching Rio de Janeiro from the south on January 20, while it was an object of popular interest in Southern Italy towards the end of that month, according to the Naples correspondent of the Times. Observers in the other hemisphere may be able to follow it for several months longer; in the last week in June the theoretical intensity of light will be equal to that at the date of its discovery by Mr. Brooks.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 29, 367–368 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029367a0
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