The late Meteoric Shower

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Dec 1872

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Nature, Volume 7, Issue 164, pp. 122-123 (1872).

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WHILE going to the Naval Observatory on the, evening of November 27, I noticed many shooting-stars, and made the following observations:-From 6h. 25m. to 6h. 43m., Washington mean time, I counted one hundred meteors; and from 7h. 40m. to 8h. om. I counted fifty meteors. The observer's face was north-west. The sky was clear to within ten or fifteen degrees of the horizon. The meteors were generally very small, and I noticed only four or five near the zenith that left trails behind that endured a few seconds. In one respect the meteors were remarkable: they all appeared to radiate from a point between the great square in Pegasus and the chair in Cassiopeia, so that during my two watches I saw but a single meteor that could properly be called sporadic. By laying down some of the tracks on a globe, I found the following rough, position of the radiant point:-

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