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COMETS.—Comet Pons Winnecke, 1927c, is now very near the earth; on the night of June 26–27 it will approach within about 312 million miles, which is closer than any cometary approach within living memory. Since, according to Mr. B. M. Peek, the nucleus is well-defined, it is worth while to take carefully timed photographs with the view of determining the solar parallax. The comet should be faintly visible to the naked eye as a large ill-defined area of faint luminosity. Its apparent motion will be as rapid as that of the moon in apogee.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 119, 938 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119938a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119938a0