METEOR SHOWER
MAY BE SEEN TO-MORROW Those hoping to see- the meteor shower predicted by astronomers to took place this week should look in the eastern sky, after 9 p.m., tomorrow to have the greatest chance of observing it. But if they expect to see the sky a blaze of shooting stars, they stand about the same chance of doing so as of winning an art union, said the director of the Carter Observatory, Wellington, Mr. M. Geddcs, in an interview. The earth would actually pass closest to tire track of the comet at 2 o’clock to-morrow: and the section of the sky out of which the meteors would come would rise above the New Zealand horizon about nine in the evening. He explained that there was no certainty that the shower would eventuate.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 6
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134METEOR SHOWER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 6
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