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The Shower of January Meteors.—A rather abundant display of these objects was observed on the night following January 3. Mr. W. F. Denning writes as follows:—At Bristol the early part of the evening was clear, and between 5.40 and 6.50 p.m. meteors appeared at the rate of thirty per hour. Clouds, wind, and sleet then interrupted watching until about 9 p.m., when the atmosphere again cleared, and the remainder of the night was splendidly favourable for observation. The shower, however, declined in numbers strikingly, for in the two or three hours preceding midnight the hourly rate of apparition was only twelve, and there was a further falling off as the night progressed. The radiant point was at 232°+53°. Large meteors were frequent, and a number of them have been recorded at several stations. Miss A. Grace Cook witnessed the event from Stowmarket and saw a considerable number of meteors on the two nights January 2 and 3. She registered a fair proportion of large ones, and found the maximum intensity occurred in the early part of January 3. The radiant was at 23i°+53°.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 109, 55 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109055a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109055a0