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I AM anxious to call the attention of observers to the present spectrum of Mira, which arrived at its maximum brilliancy on the 15th inst. I pointed out recently (NATURE, May 24, p. 79) that stars of the group to which Mira belongs are sparse meteorite-swarms like comets, and that, when variable, the variability is produced by collisions between two swarms, the centres of which are nearest together (periastron passage) at maximum.
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LOCKYER, J. The Maximum of Mira Ceti . Nature 38, 621 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038621a0
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