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HARVARD College Observatory Card 626 announces that van Biesbroeck found this comet as a fifteenth magnitude object on a pair of plates exposed at the 24-in. reflector, Yerkes. Its position on 15 June .34763d. was, R. A., Oh. 04m. 25-11s., Dec. - 4° 50' 18.7". The comet showed a short tail 1 in length in position angle 270°. In the “Handbook of the British Astronomical Association”, 1942, Mr. F. R . Cripps has given the elements of the orbit and also an ephemeris from which the object was easily found. Perihelion passage occurred only half a day earlier than was assumed.
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Periodic Comet Forbes, 1929 ii. Nature 150, 232 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150232d0
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