Word: parallaxes
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Dates: during 1899-1899
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Photographs of the shower will be taken by the Harvard Observatories at Cambridge and Blue Hill, and by Professor Upton of Brown University who is co-operating with Professor Pickering. The idea of these three photographic stations is to give a parallax so as to see how high the meteor is from the earth's surface when it appears and disappears...