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A BRIGHT METEOR.—Mr. W. F. Denning writes from Bristol that on November 3, at 6h 23 G.M.T., he observed a large meteor, equal to Venus in brightness, shooting downwards in the southern sky from 295j° + 6° to 308°-21°. The nucleus gave a flash at the end of its flight and left a white streak. The direction of the course of the object was from a radiant point near £ Ursae Majoris, which supplies many meteors at this time of the year and appears to be a well-defined centre of recurrent radiation at various periods of the year. The shower or showers has or have been frequently observed in the last quarter of the year and deserves more thorough investigation.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 112, 702 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112702a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112702a0