Word: meteoric
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Reports of yesterday from the Harvard College Observatory state that on Wednesday evening close observations were made on a very brilliant blue-green meteor. Somewhat resembling a fireball, this celestial nomad floated very slowly down the southeastern sky at an angle of 45 degrees...
This year, however, Dr. Fisher, who is known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman," believes that such perturbation will be less, and that, if the weather is favorable, it may be possible to photograph the shower. As the stream of meteers is so rich that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next...
John Edison Sloane, 12-year-old grandson of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, found a 24-oz. meteor near his camp in Maine, said he would present it to Harvard University...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
...meteor, which was visible to the naked eye, probably could be seen all over New England, officials stated. It is in order that they may supplement the information obtained by their own observation that they are asking the assistance of anyone who may have seen it. Observers outside of the immediate vicinity of Cambridge are asked to report such facts as the time the meteor was observed, the angle of its path, and its brilliance...