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THE remarkable displays of these, meteors observed in 1903 and 1904 may naturally raise the expectation as to whether the approaching Leonid epoch will exhibit an abundant fall of shooting stars. Observers, it is true, will have to contend against the impediment offered by the light of the gibbous moon; but, it may be remarked, this can only affect the smaller class of meteors, as the brilliant apparitions of 1866, 1867, and 1886, were witnessed at a similar phase of our satellite.
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HENRY, J. The Leonid Meteors, 1905. Nature 73, 28 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073028d0
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