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THOUGH there was no prospect of a brilliant display this year, there seemed the probability of a pretty conspicuous shower. In 1838—five years after the great meteor-storm of 1833—Mr. Woods, of London, reported in the Times that on the night of November 12, between 15h. 25m. and 15h. 55m., “nothing could exceed the grandeur of the heavens. Meteors fell like a shower of bombshells in a bombardment and in such rapid succession as to defy every attempt to watch their particular directions or to ascertain their numbers.” Mr. Woods estimated that he saw 400 or 500 meteors during the half-hour mentioned.
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DENNING, W. The November Meteors of1904. Nature 71, 93 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071093a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/071093a0