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Illuminating Incidents in Antipodean Astronomy: The Mysterious Tasmanian Comet of December 1883

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Wayne Orchiston
Wayne Orchiston*
Affiliation:
Department of Museum Studies, Victoria College, Clayton
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Australian astronomers have a proud history of comet-discovery, beginning with Rumker of Parramatta Observatory in 1824 (Baracchi 1914), and culminating with the outstanding achievements of Bill Bradfield of Adelaide. In the intervening one hundred and fifty years there have been a number of other notable comet-hunters and comet-observers, the most successful being John Tebbutt (see Orchiston 1981, 1982a, 1982b), Walter Gale, David Ross, and J. F. Skjellerup. Comets discovered by these Australian astronomers, and others, are listed in Marsden’s 1982 Catalogue of Cometary Orbits.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1983 , pp. 282 - 284
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1983

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