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The Late Leonid Meteor Shower

Nature volume 69, page 127 (1903)Cite this article

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SUSPECTING that the tail or following segment of this swarm, owing to its enormous length, might be outside the sphere of influence of Saturn in 1870, and Jupiter in 1898, the writer kept watch as follows to see how far this suspicion might prove to be correct:—

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MILLIGAN, W. The Late Leonid Meteor Shower. Nature 69, 127 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069127a0

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