Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward sent a snuff box of blue and gold enamel with his miniature on it. The Kaiser sent a bracelet set with a miniature of himself, a smaller twin of the one he had given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able...
...Open Nights" at the Observatory, which are sponsored by the Bond Astronomical Club for the purpose of acquainting the public with astral phenomena, will this year be four in number. On Tuesday, November 7. Fletcher Watson. Jr., will discuss "Meteor Showers": on Thursday, November 9. "The Planets" will be the subject of Loring B. Andrews '26, instructor in Astronomy; and on Monday, November 13. Dr. F.L. Whipple will end the series with a talk on "Comets...
stars, less than 10 light years away from the earth (a light year is about 6,000,000,000 miles), illuminates the Century of Progress Exhibition each evening. An automatic lecture on the Perseoid meteor shower which can be seen every August when the earth passes through the certain point in her orbit, will follow later in the evening. The meteors are called Perseoids, because they appear to come from the direction of the constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded...
When the Leonid meteors coursed through the upper air last November, Astronomer Olivier had 14 scattered observers chart the meteor trails. Comparison of data showed the meteors traveling 90 to 142 m. p. h. The faster ones began to glow from atmospheric friction when 84 mi. from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind...
...field near Eesen, Belgium, fortnight ago a peasant looked up from his spring radishes to see the Imperial Airways liner City of Liverpool suddenly burst into flames and crash like a meteor in a field, twelve passengers and the crew of three dying instantly (TIME, April...