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THE LEONID METEOR SHOWER.—Mr. W. H. Denning records that this display proved rather a feeble one this year, and that very few of the meteors were seen. Miss A. Grace Cook, of Stowmarket, watched the sky for 3¼ hours on the very clear, frosty morning of November 11, and recognised six Leonids out of a total number of twenty-five meteors seen. The radiant point was in the usual position at 150+22°. Several other observers maintained a vigilant watch on the same date, but saw very few Leonids, though some brilliant objects were recorded from the minor showers of the period. There were radiant points in Taurus, Auriga, Cancer, and Ursa Major.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 108, 417 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108417a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108417a0