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A PART from the rich shower directed from the region of Bode's asterism Quadrans, or northern limits of Bootes, on the opening nights of January, the meteors visible in this month have usually attracted little attention. Observers who have watched the cold winter sky have, indeed, generally remarked a scarcity of meteors amongst the beautiful constellations displayed at this season of the year. Zezioli, it is true, was more successful in the clear atmosphere of Italy, for on the closing nights of January, 1868, he saw a plentiful swarm of shooting stars falling from Corona and Ursa Major, and one or two other observers have occasionally recorded meteoric activity of somewhat special character, but, with the exception of its New Year's shower, the month commonly furnishes us neither with any plentiful displays nor with an abundance of meteors giving evidence of a multitude of attenuated streams.
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DENNING, W. Fireballs in January . Nature 69, 310 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069310a0
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