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A NEW comet was discovered by Dr. F. L. Whipple at Harvard on February 7. Its magnitude was 12 at the time of discovery, and it was described as diffuse with a central condensation, and a tail less than 1° in length. Dr. Whipple computed the following parabolic orbit:
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Comets. Nature 139, 365 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139365e0
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