REPORT OF NEW COMET IS NOW DISCOUNTED
, WELLINGTON, This Day <P.A.) The report of the sighting of a new comet at Riverton, Southland, is now • discounted by the director of the Carter Observatory (Mr I. L. Thomsen). Had a-comet been sighted, he said today, he would expect to have had by mid-day today confirmatory telegrams from the big network of voluntary observers which the observatory had all over the country. The only message he got was a negative report from Southland. As the comet was reported as being low in the south-western sky at 1.30 a.m.- on Sunday, it would have been high in the sky as darkness set last night. Mr Thomsen could not find it. The four young men who reported the comet -might have seen a transient auroral ray though the observatory had no evidence of unusual auroral activity at that time.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1949, Page 4
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