NEW COMET
CONFIRMATION AWAITED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. There was a possibility that Mr A. F. A. Jones, an astronomer in Timaru, had discovered a new comet, said Mr I. L. Thomsen, director of the Carter Observatory, to-day, referring to a telegram he had received from Mr Jones giving the positions of the comet, which he detected at daybreak last Wednesday. Mr Thomsen said he had cabled the information to the Harvard College observatory in the United States and the Canberra solar observatory in Australia, from where reports were awaited.
The last official discovery of a comet by a New Zealander was made in 1932 by the late Mr Murray Geddes, who was a school teacher in South Otago and later became director of the Carter Observatory. He was in the navy during the war, and it was while he was on service overseas that he died of sickness in the United Kingdom.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 6
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153NEW COMET Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 6
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