THE NEW STAR.
CHANCES OF COLLISION. HUMOROUS COMMENTARY. Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 20. Commenting on a cabled statement bv tin' Astronomer Royal that there is no danger of a collision between the new star and the earth for a "century or so," Mr G. T. Ward, Director of the Waiiganui Observatory, says humorously: "The Astronomer Royal must have had his tongue in his cheek when he was speaking. The nearest star we know of is about 25,(11)0,1)00,000 miles away. If the sun were making straight for that star, and the star were a sociable sort, tliey might imprint a salute upon each other in about 80,000 years, but I he new shir is most likely at least, a hundred times farther away. So, if alf the amenities of the celestial regions are duly observed, this reunion is impossible for" 8,000,000 years."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1358, 20 June 1918, Page 9
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