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THOUGH ordinary shooting stars are rare in the second quarter of the year, fireballs appear to be moderately numerous and to afford definite evidence of some interesting systems which, like the comets of short period, move in direct orbits with small inclinations. Many of these systems remain uncertain, and necessarily so from the circumstances, for fireballs are usually seen accidentally, and often only by persons who are unable to record them accurately. But every year fortunately adds something to our knowledge of these interesting and brilliant visitors. They are occasionally witnessed and described by practised observers, their real paths computed, and the accumulated data now enables us to discover the special periods when fireballs are usually abundant and to determine the positions of some of their principal radiant points.
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DENNING, W. Fireballs Visible in the Spring Months . Nature 69, 571 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069571a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069571a0