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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20214-1f a brilliant comet that appeared in late June. Ten years earlier, Etienne Malus (1775–1812) discovered that light can be polarized by reflection. He was observing the reflected rays of the sun through a birefringent crystal (Iceland Spar) and found that when he rotated the crystal, the two images o

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20214-1vided a great opportunity for the calculators of comet orbits and also for the hunters of the newly discovered class of objects in the Solar System – the asteroids – to find the actual orbits of those objects whose long-term observation was not guaranteed because of technological limitations or the