FINSLER’S COMET
TWO TAILS OR ONE? CAMBRIDGE, Mass., 4th August. Harvard University astronomers porecl over photographs to-day but came up undecided whether the monthold Finsler’s comet, now approaching maximum brilliance in the northern sky, has two tails or one. . “Highly possible,” said an observatory soientist of a Baltimore amateur astronomer's report he had photographed two tails. Thus far, however, Harvard records show only one tail. If there is an extra tail, Harvard astronomers explained, it would indicate more activity on the comet's head. The tail js composed of gases blown away from the head. The comet, discovered sth July by Dr. P. Finsler, of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, to-day was approximately one-third of the way from the North Star to the pointer stars of the Big Dipper. Astronomers expect it to reach maximum brilliance by 10th August.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 16
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