ORIGIN OF LUMINOUS METEOR TRAINS 



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Fig. 7. Daylight Train of a Detonating Meteor. Seen from the Lick 

 Observatory, 7 :30 p.m., July 26, 1896, visible for one half hour, from a drawing pub- 

 lished by the observatory. The enlarged part of the train is the point where the 

 explosion occurred, twenty-eight miles above the surface of the earth. 



Leo, "like the spokes of a wheel, three or four at a time" ! The 

 radiant point is the region in the heavens from which meteors appear 

 to emanate. Many trains have been observed on the European conti- 

 nent from time to time. One of these is shown in one of the illustra- 

 tions. It was seen at Leiden in Holland on the night of November 13, 

 1865. 



Recent Remarkable Trains Seen in England 

 A train which was observed all over the south of England during 

 the evening of August 12, 1894, was formed by a meteor at 10:20 P.M. 



