[net.space] Halley's comet "captured" by astronomers

silver (12/27/82)

They've picked up Halley's comet on it's way in!  CSU professor Roger
Culver writes in the local paper (the Coloradoan, 821226):
"About eight degrees to the north and west of the bright star Procyon
in this month's crisp Colorado sky, an object glows with the brightness
of a birthday candle as seen from 60,000 miles away... at the very limits
of modern astronomical instrumentation. ... At the last appearance of
Halley's comet in 1910, astronomers "recovered" this object only a few
months before... perihelion."
He does not say who found it or where he got his information.
Pretty neat, huh?