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NOVEMBER METEORS.—With the July number of Monthly Notices R.A.S. a circular is issued by G. Johnstone Stoney, calling the attention of astronomers to the approach of the great secular maximum of the Leonids, which is due about 1899 or 1900. It is probable that this swarm was drawn into the solar system by the planet Uranus about February or March A.D. 126, and carelul observations during the next few years may furnish materials for confirming or rejecting this hypothesis. Photography should be employed as widely as possible, and wherever practicable the time of appearance of each meteor recorded. Accurate simultaneous observations from different stations will be of exceptional use. The radiant-points and times of apparition of all meteors should be exactly noted, commencing a few nights before, and continuing some nights after, November 14 and 15.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 54, 301 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054301a0
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