CELESTIAL FIREWORKS
METEOR FALL EXPECTED TO.MORROW NIGHT Astronomers expect a shower of meteors to fall to-morrow night from It p.m. when the world, in its career through space, will rush close across the tail of a comet. It is likely that star-dust trail'ng in the wake of the comet will hurtle into the earth*;, atmosphere and break into a rain <>i falling stars. The comet is known as the Jurlof. Aehmanarof-Hasscl. Twice in the next six months the course of this imposingly-named wanderer of outer space will intersect that of the earth: 011 Thursday night and at the end oi January. On each occasion a. showe; or meteors is likely to occur. Astronomers are eagerly awaiting these celestial fireworks, which may be spectacular, though there is a chance that nothing out of Ihe ordinary will occur. There is 110 need for. alarm a s the bodies from space w'li burn up in, the earth's atmosphere. before hitting the tait-V
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 44, 2 August 1939, Page 5
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