# Talk:Great Comet of 1882

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This article is currently having its GA status questioned, see the discussion at Wikipedia:Good article review. T Rex | talk 19:28, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

As a result of the fixes made during the reassessment process at good article reassessment all objections to this articles status on the GA list have been withdrawn.  Good job on fixing it up, and keep working on it.  This could be a Featured Article some day!  For the archived disussion, see Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 29. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 01:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.153.167.20 (talk) 07:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC) 

Reading the (Fayetteville, Georgia) Weekly Constitution, April 18, 1882, I found an article reprinted from the New York Sun, which suggests that this comet had been discovered in the preceding month.  That is significantly earlier than this article suggests.  On the same page, an article reprinted from the Philadelphia Times gives an interview with professor [Isaac?] Sharpless of Harvard.
http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers-j2k/view?docId=bookreader/awc/awc1882/awc1882-0105.mets.xml#page/n0/mode/1up
In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, p. 58-62, John Tebbutt gives astronomical observations from New South Wales, from June and July, 1882.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1882MNRAS..43...58T/0000058.000.html
LineChaser (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)