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A WIRELESS message from Mohd. A. R. Khan, of Begumpet, Deccan, India, presumably sent on November 22, reads as follows: “Splendid meteoric shower last night. Gamma Monocerotis radiant.” Assuming the radiant to have been exactly at y Monocerotis (R.A. 114-5°; -9 -4°), and taking the date as Greenwich midnight of November 21 (November 22, Oh. U.T.), Mr. A. King has computed the following parabolic orbit: t, 115-0°; TC, 135-4°; Q, 58-8°; q, 0-608. The recently published “Index to Southern Meteor Showers” by Mr. R. A. Mclntosh, of Auckland, N.Z., gives two radiants at 114£°-9°, November 15–16. Possibly Mr. Khan's shower represents a continuation of this stream, but more cannot be said until definitive details come to hand.
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Recent Shower of Meteors. Nature 136, 867 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136867a0
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