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THE November meteors are due to return on November 14 and 15, and, though no abundant display may be expected, Mr. W. F. Denning thinks that the shower is likely to prove fairly conspicuous. The parent comet of the meteors must have been in aphelion in 1916, and is now situated between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, so that whatever meteors may appear this year must be at a vast distance from the cometary nucleus of the shower. The whole orbit, however, contains meteoritic particles, and observations during last century prove that this system re-appears annually at the middle of November. It is fortunate that the moon will be absent from the sky after the rising; of the Leonid radiant, which occurs at about 10.15 p.m. on November 15. Probably the meteors will be far more abundant after midnight, when the radiant at 150° + 23° has attained a fairly good altitude.
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Meteors of the Season. Nature 106, 360 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106360a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106360a0