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NEW COMET.—The third cometary discovery of the year was made on Nov. 19 by Mr. Forbes, an amateur astronomer of Cape Town. It was a fairly easy telescopic object, being then estimated as of the sixth magnitude, but no tail was seen. The following observations, of which the first was noted as being only approximate, have been distributed by the I.A.U. Bureau at Copenhagen:
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 122, 856 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122856a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122856a0