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MAY METEORS.?Meteoric phenomena are usually somewhat scarce in May, but fireballs are often more abundant than in other months. The chief display of shooting stars, next perhaps in importance to the Aquarids of Halley's Comet, is a shower radiating from a position eastwards of Corona and near Herculis at about 247o + 290. They are swift white meteors of average magnitude and moderately short paths, and have been most plentifully observed on about May 18 and 24, but further observations are required to determine the epoch of maximum. Fireballs are occasionally recorded from Scorpio and from the western region of Aquila in May, and a few very slow-moving meteors are seen in some years from near Capella. Although the meteors visible at this time of the year are not equal in number to those appearing on autumn nights, they are of considerable interest, and have never been sufficiently observed. The bulk of the observations in this department of astronomy has been accumulated in the last half of the year, and it follows that many of the meteoric systems visible in the spring season have been comparatively neglected.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 111, 682 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111682a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111682a0