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Spot New Object in Heavens

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A cablegram, received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, announces the discovery of a moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, declination north 15 degrees 28 minutes.

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