Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity for amateurs to be of service to science will come late tomorrow evening or early Saturday or Sunday mornings, when the annual shower of Leonid meteors will be visible, it was stated yesterday by Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory...
While other astronomers pondered the darkening of light (see p. 26), Dr. Willard James Fisher of Harvard Observatory anticipated an unusual brightening of darkness. He reminded U. S. stargazers that this year the Leonid meteor display will be the most brilliant since 1866. Star lovers who want to see the cosmic fireworks will have to stay up late during the first week of November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south...
...Leonid showers increase in a 33-year cycle, reaching the height of their brilliance at the end of the period. Year after next is one of their gala 33-year anniversaries. In 1899, stargazers were disappointed, complained that the Leonid performance was not worth sitting up all night for. Astronomers decided that the meteors had approached too near Jupiter, had missed the earth by being attracted out of their customary elliptical path around...