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OBSERVATIONS OF COMETS.—In No. 4402 of the Astronomische Nachrichten Dr. Wolf directs attention to a peculiarity in the form of comet 1910a. Besides the main and subsidiary tails, Dr. Wolf's photographs show a conical faint mass of material extending from the base of the coma towards the sun, quite different from anything he has seen in previous comets, and having the appearance of a miniature zodiacal light. The point of the cone was in position-angle 215°, 180° from the direction of?? axis of the tail, and was at a distance of 13′ from the nucleus.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 83, 231–232 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083231a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/083231a0