The Great Meteoric Shower

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Dec 1872

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Nature, Volume 7, Issue 162, pp. 85 (1872).

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A VERY fine shower of shooting stars was observable at Boltsburn, Rookhope, in Durham, on Wednesday night (27th inst.). I first noticed them about half-past seven, when they were very numerous ; their directions were chiefly downward, towards nearly all points of the horizon. The radiant point seemed to be situated near the Great Bear, but of this I could not make myself perfectly satisfied. They varied much in magnitude and length of track. Some of the larger ones left a streak of reddish light on their track, which lasted a second or two. About eight o'clock I counted, in fifteen minutes, 600, which came within my field of vision from a doorway having a southerly exposure. The regularity of occurrence was such as to approximate closely to 200 during each five minutes. How long the phenomenon continued in the latter part of the night I had not the opportunity of ascertaining.

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