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A MESSAGE published in The Times of January 10 announces that a comet has been discovered by Mr. E. L. Johnson of the Union Observatory, Johannesburg. This comet will be called Johnson's comet, 1935–4. The comet is presumably faint. Some half dozen faint comets are seen every year. For example, in 1933 there were six, ranging in magnitude at brightest from 8 to 18 (this was the faintest comet which has yet been observed). Of these, three were periodic and recognised as returns of known comets. It is some years since a notable, naked-eye comet appeared.
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First Comet of 1935. Nature 135, 115 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135115c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135115c0