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COMETS.—Taylor's Comet of 1915 is now due at perihelion. Prof. G. van Biesbroeck and Mr. Chang, of the Yerkes Observatory, have computed the perturbations by Jupiter, which were very large, the distance between comet and planet in June 1925 being less than a quarter of a unit. They give the following elements and ephemeris (Harvard Announcement Card, No. 73):
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 122, 623 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122623a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122623a0