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A FINE meteoric shower was observed here on the night of November 23, from 7h. 30m. to 12h. 30m., when the observations were interrupted by cloud.1 The meteors were evidently “Bielids,” the radiant at 8.30 being near a point, R.A., 1h. 20m.; Dec., 40° 30′. The radiant, however, was not well defined, its area being at least 4° in diameter. For a single observer, in a position which commanded only about one-sixth of the visible hemisphere, the meteors numbered about six a minute, which would indicate at least seventy-five a minute for the entire sky, exhaustively observed.
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YOUNG, C. Meteors. Nature 47, 150 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047150b0
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