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Last week, after calculations of its orbit, Harvard announced that the comet was approaching Earth, had already increased in brightness from the ninth magnitude to the eighth. Now 120,000,000 miles distant, it will come within 20,000,000 miles (less than one-quarter of the distance to the Sun) before receding. At its nearest approach late in July, it will have reached the sixth magnitude, will be the first naked-eye comet since...
Computations of the comet's orbit were made by Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy and Leland E. Cunningham on the basis of photographs taken at the Cambridge and Oak Ridge stations...
Since its discovery Friday, computations of the stellar body's orbit and other conclusive calculations have already been made by the Observatory. The local astronomers were only second on the scene of notion, however...
...young of immigrants who move out of the family orbit change their motor habits completely, begin to gesture like those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not always manifested their present immobility. In Elizabethan times they gestured violently. Dr. Boas' conclusion from all this is direct and simple : motor habits are cultural, not biological...
Special studies of the orbit will probably be made at the University of California and in Europe...