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Comet Friend-Reese. Harvard Card560 announces that Mr. Clarence L. Friend, Escondido, California, discovered a comet on January 17. It was discovered independently by Mr. E. J. Reese, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was described as diffuse with a nucleus, tail less than 1° in length, magnitude 10 Messrs. K. Guthe and R. M. Thomas of the Harvard Observatory have determined a position of the comet from a pre-discovery image on a Harvard plate taken with the FA camera (Cambridge, 1·5 in. aperture), and from a plate taken with the I camera (Cambridge, 8-in. aperture). The first was on Jan. 0·9908 and the other on Jan. 29·00698, and from these and an observation on January 19 they have computed the following orbit:
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Comets. Nature 147, 386–387 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147386d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147386d0