Word: meteoric
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...person who saw a meteor in the sky on Wednesday evening at about 7 o'clock is requested to communicate with officials of the Harvard Observatory, it was announced yesterday...
...said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing stars surrounded by an electric display." Said she: "I thought of the Star of Bethlehem." Scientist Francis Baker Laney, professor of geology at the University of Idaho, Moscow, thought of meteors when he heard the news.* The flash and crash, he announced, were similar to those which in 1921 attended the fall of a large meteor in the nearby Seven Devils country. Laney thought the new cosmic projectile had been thrown from the constellation Andromeda, wanted to find it for study. Also...
...July 8, 1896. Norman de Vaux arrived in San Francisco, vaulted off his Meteor bicycle, proclaimed that he had made a 3,786-mi. trip from Manhattan in 37 days, 14 hr., 15 min. Never since, say loyal friends, has that record been broken...
...disappointed U. S. astronomers went to bed early one evening last week. They had planned to sit up all night to watch the expected leonid meteor display, but fogs and rain in most localities made observing impossible. Watchers at New Orleans had several hours of clear sky, reported a fine display...
Founder of the American Meteor Society, Dr. Charles Pollard Olivier of the Flower Observatory, University of Pennsylvania, has encouraged laymen for the past few years to help astronomers observe meteor phenomena. Last week he asked them to time the flight of each shooting light, watch carefully to see where the meteors originated. Since some of Dr. Olivier's amateur helpers have reported a shower this year, astronomers know that the meteorites have not been pulled out of their usual path by another planet as they were in 1899. In this case, the next two years should have brilliant display...