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Watchers of the skies in the wee small hours this week may see the most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...
...November, and if more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information has also been received that...
Near Coon Butte, Ariz., is a mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
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Publications which challenged the winner were the Blair Breeze, the Exonian, the Hill News, The Meteor of the Virginia Episcopal School. The Philippians of Andover, the Mercersberg News, the Red and White of St. George's, the Reserve Record of the Western Reserve Academy, and the Taft Papyrus...