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like the fixed stars near it, its definition was
impaired and its size increased. This con-
vinced him that the object was a comet, and
he was not surprised to find on succeeding
nights that the position was changed, the
motion being in the ecliptic. He gave the
observations of five weeks to the Royal So-
ciety without a suspicion that the object
was a new planet.
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