Comet Morehouse

id: comet-morehouse-188-10459997
title: Comet Morehouse
text: Comet Morehouse (modern formal designation: C/1908 R1) was a bright, non-periodic comet discovered by US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse and first observed on September 1, 1908 (the discovery photograph was taken on September 1, but the comet was not noticed until the following day), at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Morehouse was a graduate student at the time. It was unusual in the rapid variations seen in the structure of its tail. At times, the tail seemed to split into up
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description: Non-periodic comet
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Morehouse
date created: 2005-06-13T06:28:26Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T22:22:41Z
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