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The Leonid Meteors.—A Science Service bulletin, dated Nov. 16, reports a fairly active shower of these meteors in the early hours of Nov. 16, observed by seven students of Columbia College, Dubuque, Iowa, under the direction of Rev. J. Theobald, professor of mathematics. In spite of a slight haze, 289 meteors were observed in six hours; the maximum rate of fall was 90 per hour at 4.45 A.M. (that is, 10.45 U.T.). These meteors came about eighteen hours before the slightly less active shower observed in England by Mr. Prentice and Mr. King.
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Astronomical Topics. Nature 128, 972 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128972a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128972a0