SHOWERS OF METEORS
NEXT THURSDAY NIGHT A STRONG.! IE R’ S FORECAST (I’er Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Astronomers expect a shower of meteors to fall next Thursday night. That night the world will rush close across the tail of a comet. It is likely that the stardust trailing in the wake of the comdt will hurtle into' the earth’s atmosphere and break into a rain of falling stars. The comet is that known as Jur-lof-Achmanarof-Hassel. Twice in the next six months its course will nearly intersect that of the earth, the occasions being next week and at the end of January. On each occasion a shower of meteors is likely to occur.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 4
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113SHOWERS OF METEORS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 4
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