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Meteors

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SEVERAL splendid meteors having lately been visible, the following observations may be worthy of note in NATURE. I may add that the most brilliant meteor was the one recorded in your columns (vol. xxiv. p. 189).

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HOPKINS, B. Meteors. Nature 24, 238 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024238c0

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