Comets and rockets
DEC 01, 1965
DOI: 10.1063/1.3047062
The recent comet Ikeya‐Seki gave the first opportunity for observation of the passage of a bright sun‐grazing comet with sounding rockets and high‐flying aircraft. (Such comets occur once or twice a century.) The operation was a success, but the patient didn’t have the disease.
© 1965. American Institute of Physics
