DISCOVERY OF NEW COMET
(United Press Association) 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, today. Reports by observers throughout the country had made it clear that Mr Mclntosh, who saw it about 2.30 a.m. on January 25, was the first to observe the new comet. No official advice had yet been received from overseas reporting the discovery of the comet, but Press reports stated that a Melbourne amateur astronomer, Mr J. F. Skjellerup, had located it four day.* before Mr Mclntosh. The name of the comet would probably be determined by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific whose practice was to name it after the first person to discover it.
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Southland Times, Issue 24352, 5 February 1941, Page 4
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