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THE LEONIDS.—Unfortunately for observers in the neighbourhood of London, a fog more or less continuously hung over their heads on the nights of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and rendered observations of the expected meteor shower impossible. Observers at the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington, were only able to observe two or three meteors during these nights. One of special brilliance, on the night of Monday, at 10.48 G.M.T., shot across the sky from east to west, its paths extending at least 45 degrees. This was undoubtedly a fine Leonid; but its path could not be traced, as fog and cloud hid the stars from view.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 59, 62–63 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059062a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059062a0