Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1901, Page 19

as ¥ ity Astronomers Watch for the Wandering Asteroids Leonid swarm, ex pected last year and the year be fore, this year? Ior years past all devotees of omy, professional and an th followed by as watched during the 13, 14 and 15 for th famou of science Will thi and a final die Certain astronomers beliove think that the Leon will ap this month in all their 1 splen come two on Lo 2 J¢ teur disap had pointment, have r hopes they of November of the shooting stars witne ntment? t; they ming most shower known to another pear lor All tars, observing people not till within known that the odle put i I have seen fow hoot decades shooting star fol il heavenly appointed path complete knowle vas | every that suing each that, if had a them, the flash of f every considerable s certainly lowed laws govern its each one, or at least group of them, 1 predicted the ight f the planets )| November 1s the of the shooting stars, the called striking to the eye have filled the largest ind believed, offer the itful field \ few WAarm were 11 and a few days 1 that time about Noy 14, 1899, the ¢ their coming photographic age From were with of thers Something altogether in principally at Yale and Harvard H. Pickering of the Harvard ob favored with a clear sky at th which he was then maintaining at West Indies, saw hundred on each of the two nights on which he ob served them But this was nothing to the glorious records of the swarm in the past In the ninth century the Arabs its appearance in their annals as a stars,” The Chinese have it tronomical records early again in the time by sands,” with two of meteors large ‘quart measure.’ From that time to they have been noted with fair regu every thirty-three years or so though with gaps here and thereand al ways in terms that sight of splendor and sublimity The last first-class shower in this coun try was on November 14, 1833, though on November 13, 1 , there was a considerable Leonids, as by swarm s are g the most place in the for most omer rch November a ted most of the 1808, re seen on befor: 800 were at mber trono armed weapons ¢ one hun recorded dimin the sky were o over a northern in awaited latest the photographic hundred though watchers Ired to two year 1 hope ready tantial red latitudes, Prof. W servatory, again the but results were noted miade sub hur Jamaica, over a recorded “rain of their as 913 and “‘thou m as last the as 1002, as bespoke a display in Europe. On November 14, 1866 they appeared again, the largest display coming in November, 1867, however, when the astronomers and newspapers of the time write of them as a wonderful and glorious phenomenon But the year for their recurrence has been variously fixed by astronomers, depending on the year as signed vears as small the last of a group of Referring the appearance 1866 has been chosen by some as a starting point, and to a period of thirty-three years between the swarms would bring them back in 1809 The year 1867 appears, how ever, from contemporary accounts, to have CAMERAS AT EXPECTED HARVARD UNIVERSITY THIS WEEK produced the hest display A thirty-three vear period would therefore bring them back in 1900 But, on the other hand, it has been shown that the period of the swarm has been lengthening and must now b thirty-four vears—a calcula tion which would assign the present month as the pr r time of their reappearance close to Prof. W. H. Pickering of the Harvard ob servatory claims that the estimate of thirty four years, reckoning from 186 is sus tained by the best data ment is as follows His present state “Computing from 902, the first certain date, and omitting, for convenience, all mid-century appearances, they had a period of thirty-thre and one-fourth years, ap pearing in 1002, 1101, 1202, 1302, 1402, 1502 and 1602 A change seems to have come in the orbit at that juncture and instead of 100 years later, they appeared, not every thirty-three years, but every thirty-four years “Beginning from 1833 Prof. Plckering continues, “the last year of an unquestioned maximum, we get 1867 as the next appear ance in considerable numbers, and the ac- counts of the last appearance of the swarm assign 1867 as the last year, though 1866 had a considerable display Continuing the computation, then, 1901 would he the end of the next thirty-four-year poriod “A hope of seeing the shower, supposing the perturbation is as outlined above, lies in the probable shape of the swarm. The meteors are strewn along the orbit for GEORGE R BRIDAL MOYER PARTY FORMERLY OF WYOMING, HIS BRIDE, SENORITA MARIA CONCEPCION ATTENDANTS—FPhotograph taken in Manila READY FOR THE LEONID SHOWERS willions of miles, long enough at least so that the earth may two or three revolutions around its own orbit before get- ting clear of the swarm It is not supposed that the which small, dark bodies, are distributed in space in a eylin- der-shaped figure, but like a strap, and this strap is wavy or zigzag in outline, 1 wave being the record of a perturba- tion due to the passing of one or more of the planets near the swarm The some- what remote chance of the earth intercept- ing a crest of one of these waves is to be regarded of the hopes of the as- tronomer, “The Leonid swarm s, nevertheless, well worth watching for, even if not numer- ous as on ite former appearances. For one thing, they are among the brightest of me- teors and offer the best probable chance of securing gpectrum, leading to a know! edge of their constitution. They are mov- ing in a contrary direction to the motlon of the earth in its orbit, and, when inter- cepted by our atmosphere, their velocity 18 make meteors are more one the sum of their own and the earth's. They are thus readily {dentified, being quick, bright flashes across the sk ueunally with a bluish light, but sometimes yellow. This brightness of the light is what the spec- troscopist would desire in his researches though it is obtained at the expense of the length of exposure.' The great eclipse of the Leonid orbit has long diameter 1,800,000,000 miles a some ESCOLAR, AND THEIR ind the swarm has completed this enor In observing metec he imy thing mous clrcult Afty-two times, next e f by asty f W\ hot It it occurs, belng fitty -third ay i\ 1t v ol | ] ha mnee I'he best considered theory of the her ire useful, but with 1} ippearances of the Leonids o hooting Brfehtn omething of | \ stars in our terrestial atmosphere p lone, and, wha of more s | poses that the orbit of the earth or ¢ need not be oa prof the orbit of the meteors and that once in v do one it in tha thirty-three or thirty -four years the carth ! runs into the swarm that is, int he place I lar 10 by the Harvard ot of their greatest frequency taki ree or \ ry and designed to secure world - wid four days to cross | I'he o e o1 the work of observing the carth’s atmosphere where the vt [V I Leonid has been recor ended tercepted is in line with a poh he that the observer note how long it took for stellation Leonis (or the Lion) ) ten shooting statr O appear On the record name of Leonid I'he determi i of mad h 1 appear the place of observa this radial point is an fmportant T the observe postoffice addre hie tion with astronomnre 'he pat! by ' 1 dat b ! obtained by u the shooting stars, though appeat e ing the date of the pr evening for the very much at random will I Iy mory observation » nee the ron placed on a chart of the sky. be | g omibeal day begins at o he time used meet at acertain point - the y Whether Greenwich 1 or local, th radiant This has a movem i ’ nd end of B ns, whi own, the measurement of which n- Were to be made Hy with intervais « teresting 1he of research ¥ xtikin T between, when other oobserva of the shooting etar \ meteor ha tions might be made wnd finally any inter been sald, being a dark body in thae SHPAUE ASEEIOTHES OV IO aUeE S0t I5, a “shooting tar only when ollides If the hooting tars have lot path b with the earth's atmosphere and mes Marked characters a le HUMBEr-that ton luminous will also be found row AR LB UL G L L AHGREUR: ay o6 nnpronches: tho i e MTECE mumber could be counted. The ol to. ‘(o ‘alect of porapedtive fis onq Servations need only car ystem and per track, for example, will appear ehorter or CLGIL L SO A 1 GUILR B d longer, in itself, as one looks at I per “, “l”" “““:‘ll' "”l"‘ vl,‘ ' ,‘,.“:Iu‘.:\klil.:‘ s spective or from om 1 The paths of 3 . them those near the radiant will b (o (o records head-on,” and however long in reality wil Fhe ostimate of magnitude shoulq 1 appear as points only to us. We see the 1y | ting. T paths uww‘ and more sideways moving | .n’.':’.“ it “ ':I ‘l";y.'fl“:".k':.‘rx‘H;:;:,.\xi}‘.m-l‘l:‘. away from the radiant and meteore very il much to tne side of our axis of will (Continued on Eighth Page)) weep through great ares of the GEERN—— 'he constellati Leonis rise ! y e fore midnight on November 14, 1 not ma well in view il 1 a. m EU St 1 found m"er readily by using the “pointer nothe Dipper in a reverse divrection from the cu who neither sands tomary use in finding the Norih at his supgar nor Leonis will be identified about as far off waters his milk as the North Star is the other way and as a who believes in very good outline of a sickle vith the the best, and s particular to bright star, Regulus, at the outer end of please his patrons the handle A better way s to use the two . , y stars forming the side of the Dipper nearest Fhat's the yrocer who recoms the handle for pointers. These point, mends and sells again in the direction opposite to the North L. 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