IMPACT OF TWO STARS.
PROF. BICKERTOCTS THEOBY. TRUTH MAY BE ESTABLISHED. CBy Telegraph.—Press Association.) " • HAWERA, Thursday. fjf 'If the reported observation tbst . ova Pictoris now consists of two staia ; /ji is substantiated, it' practically lishes the partial' impact theory of Professor A. W. Bickerton, late professor of i?'; physics at Canterbury College, and if so " it is an honour to New Zealand," said : '£ Mr. P. O'Dea, F.R.A.S., and a inemberof% the council of the New Zealand Astronomical Society, when interviewed to" day regarding - observations at Jobainesburg as cabled. »; 5^ "Professor Bickerton," continued Mt - O'Dea, "was, like all other pioneer* |g looked on as a faddist and his Tie** ■ ; have not received recognition. In his election to the Royal Astrononifc®! Society was even turned down. . M theory was that two suns dashed each other, forming a grazing inmk: and blazing up into great brilliance, lb*. 1 is evidently what happened to Nova Pfejp tons. In 1926-27 it blazed up into * star of the first magnitude, then receded in brilliance. Many ohserva* tions were made by Mr. G. M. Tow*send at Hawera observatory, and spectrum of its light viewed in - the : spectroscope was a very peculiar pte*nomenon."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 8
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