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Meteors

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ON the evening of November 20 at about 8 p.m. my attention was attracted by a number of meteors appearing as often as once per minute in different quarters of the heavens, but pursuing courses apparently radiating from a point near the constellation Andromeda.

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VEEDER, M. Meteors. Nature 23, 147 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023147c0

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