NAME FOR COMET
AUCKLAND MAN’S CLAIM (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The name of Mr R. A. Mclntosh, an Auckland amateur astronomer, 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 the comet about 2.30 a.m. on January 25, was the first to do so. No official advice had yet been received from overseas reporting the discovery of the comet, but a press report had established that a Melbourne amateur astronomer, Mr J. S. Skjellerup, had located it four days 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 or, where there was a number, after the first three.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 5 February 1941, Page 9
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151NAME FOR COMET Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 5 February 1941, Page 9
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