Halley's comet 'captured' by astrono - (nf)

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uiucdcs!whaley Dec 31 15:35:00 1982

Halley's comet found October 16, 1982 by a team at Caltech
headed by grad student D. Jewett, staff G. Danielson.
Reported in latest issue of Planetary Report complete with
picture. P.R. is Carl Sagan's non-profit organization.
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The article mentions among other things that the sighting was
done at Palomar with the PFUEI Prime Focus Universal Extragalactic
Instrument using CCDs.

Now the International Halley Watch has been activated.

The P.S. will sell any and all back issues cheap (1.50 I think).