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THE DECEMBER METEORS.—These meteors are due to reappear on the nights of December 10–13, and with suitable weather ought to be well observed this year, as there will be no interference from moonlight. The maximum will probably occur on December 12, when the radiant will be at 112° + 33° near α Geminorum. The point of radiation apparently moves eastward at the rate of 1° daily. The meteors are moderately swift, sometimes slow, but their individual aspects depend in a measure upon their relative positions with respect to the observer and the radiant. In the early hours of the evening the flights are longer than in the later part of the night, the radiant being higher in the sky in the small hours of the morning.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 106, 482 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106482a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106482a0