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METEORS ON JULY 19.—Though meteors were singularly rare in the two hours before midnight on July 1 they were rather abundant and brilliant after midnight. At 12h. 12m. G.M.T. one of magnitude 1 shot rapidly from 339°+72° to 261°+410°, and left a bright streak. Its radiant was probably between α and β Persei. At 12h. 18m. a meteor exceeding magnitude 1 passed from 320°+35° to 317°+27°, and was directed from Cepheus. At 12h. 37m. a very fine meteor with an extraordinarily lon course of 89° travelled slowly from 328°+11° to 238°+10°, and left a bright streak in its wake. At 13h. 35m. a blue, flashing meteor shot rapidly down across the star n Pegasi, and was directed from a shower near α Cygni or at 316° + 48°. At 13h. 50m. a tolerably bright meteor, leaving a streak, crossed the cluster in Perseus from a radiant at 40°+20°, and at 14h. 15m. a bright Perseid, leaving a streak, shot from 326½°+17½° to 316°+6°. Duplicate observations of any of these interesting objects, if sent to Mr. W. F. Denning (44 Egerton Road, Bristol) would enable their heights, etc., to be computed.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 99, 431–432 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099431a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099431a0