![]() ![]() He immediately gets in touch with the Americans at Mount Palomar. Dr Christopher Kingsley makes some calculations based on the amateur astronomer’s findings and the results are startling. ![]() This suggests that the cloud is moving towards our solar system, possibly quite rapidly.Īt about the same time a British amateur astronomer also notices something odd - perturbations in the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. What is surprising is how quickly it’s grown over the course of two weeks. It’s a cloud, presumably a gaseous cloud. ![]() The Black Cloud sold well when it appeared in 1957 and was the beginning of his successful second career as a science fiction writer.Ī young Norwegian scientist at Mount Palomar Observatory notices something odd on a series of photographic plates. The Black Cloud was the first novel by the eminent British astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle. ![]()
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