Abstract
QUETELET pointed out, many years ago, the period July 26–30 as a meteoric epoch of considerable intensity, and recent observations have fully confirmed his opinion. There are two special showers contributing to this result, namely, the Aquariads and Perseids. The latter merely represents the oncoming of the great August display which culminates on the 10th and then rapidly dies out.
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DENNING, W. The Shooting Stars of the July Meteoric Epoch . Nature 28, 351 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028351a0
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