The Meteor Shower of January 2

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Jan 1879

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1879natur..19..221d&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 19, Issue 480, pp. 221 (1879).

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AFTER a very heavy fall of rain, sleet, and then snow (equalling the aggregate 1.472 inch), on the evening and night of January 1, the clouds partly cleared away on the ensuing morning, and during a watch of twenty minutes (6.14 to 6.34 A.M., January 2) in a sky fully two-thirds overcast, fourteen meteors were seen, all of them belonging to the special shower in Quadrans. This radiant was evidently very active at the time I saw it, and in a cloudless sky, must have supplied meteors at the rate of more than one per minute (for one observer). The paths were short and quick without streaks or trains. Radiant point at 230° + 51°, but not very exactly found owing to the clouds and haze through which several of the meteors were indistinctly seen. Three or four were as bright as 1st mag. stars.

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