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MOHD. A. R. KHAN, of Begumpet, Deccan, who has communicated the results of his observations of meteors for several years to NATURE, has sent an account of his observations during 1940. From this it appears that during the year a total watch of 103J hours was maintained on 152 nights and the paths of 1,390 meteors were recorded. The great majority of these belonged to the sporadic class-a result in agreement with that obtained by the Harvard Expedition to Arizona in 1931. The month of December was most prolific, yielding a total of 472 meteors, and on some nights the hourly rate was about forty. An analysis of the magnitudes of the meteors observed is interesting and the table given below will show the relative paucity of very bright meteors. Eight were so faint that no definite magnitude could be assigned to them, and 117 had magnitudes between 4.5 and 5-5. The others were classified as follows:
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Meteor Observations in India during 1940. Nature 147, 742–743 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147742e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147742e0