NEW COMET

Grey River Argus, 5 February 1941, Page 9

NEW COMET

Question of a Name WELLINGTON, February 4. The name of Mr R. A. Mclntosh, an amateur astronomer of Auckland, will be sent overseas as the New Zealand discoverer of the new comet, said Mr M. Geddes, Director of the Carter Observatory, to-day. Reports by observers throughout, the country had made it clear that Mr Mclntosh, who saw it about 2.30 a.m. on Saturday, January 25, was first to see the comet in New Zealand. No official advice has yet been received from overseas, said Mr Geddes, reporting the discovery of th? comet, but press reports have established that the Melbourne amateur astronomer, Mr J. F. Skjellerup, located it four days before Mr Mclntosh. r l hp nam? of the comet would probably be determined by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, whose practice it was 1o name it after the first person to discover it.