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SEVERAL papers describing British observations of the Giacobinid meteor shower, 1946, were presented at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society on December 13, 1946. Special interest was attached to this subject because of the incidence of a shower of such exceptional intensity at a time when the considerable advances made by radar techniques were able to make an important contribution to the observations. Such methods not only enabled estimates of hourly rates to be made without interference due to poor visibility, but also demonstrated how information on certain meteor characteristics can be provided more conveniently and more precisely than is possible by visual meteor watches.
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HEY, J. THE GIACOBINID METEOR SHOWER, 1946. Nature 159, 119–121 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159119a0
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