About five comets, on the average, are discovered every year. Eleven were found in 1925, ten in 1927. Most comets are visible only in telescopes. The average of naked-eye comets is less than one a year, and a really conspicuous one whirls into the solar system about once a decade.
On July 4 a Swiss astronomer named Plnsler discovered a moving speck not far from the bright star Algol in the constellation of Perseus. Last week it was a fuzzy spot just visible to the unaided eye. This week the Finsler comet is...
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