Meteors of November, 1868. 407 
served at New Haven and other places. An error of a half 
hour in recording the time of appearance would make the two 
| coincident in time, The Washington meteor was “the most 
_ remarkable meteor of the shower,” its train exhibited one of 
the two remarkable apertures described by Prof. Gummere, its 
position was very near that in which the one we have described 
| would have been seen, and its train endured for a like unex- 
| ampled period. Such a meteor as that described by Prof. Hast- 
man would have certainly attracted attention at other stations, 
Prof. Eastman says that it appeared “near « Ursee Majoris, 
and moved west across ¢ Urse Minoris.” This path to be 
nformable to the radiant in Leo needs a change of direction. 
ooking from Washington at the path determined above- from 
the Haverford and New Haven observations, the path would be 
seen crossing the line joining the two stars just mentioned. 
Only so much change of the path observed is needed as is 
hecessary to make it conformable to the Leo radiant. The 
assigned path satisfies reasonably the Washington observations. 
At Palisades—The path of the meteor as above deter- 
mined passes very nearly vertically over Palisades at an eleva- 
tion of 95 miles, The lower end of the cloud was 22° high 
and 5° or 6° north of Jupiter. In one of his notes. Mr. Gil- 
man says that the track ended near « Piscium, an error, prob- 
ably for 41 Piscium. The assigned length of path 50° or 60°, 
would imply a first altitude of 85, or 90 miles. This esti- 
__ the position of the track with reference to Jupiter, sent by Miss 
| Mitchell, would imply that the meteor’s path was nearer to the 
| uth of 
| Jupiter, much farther than would be implied by the sketch o 
the track. The meteor when due south would have been (if 
} visible) 45° high. No essential transfer of the track tow 
} Jupiter can be made, however, without rejecting either the 
tion and altitude of the two ends of the cloud are 8. 43° W., 1 
and §. 46° W. 
i?) 
4 
Se 
5 
FE 
te 
> 
.O 
oo 
2 
S 
5 
ie) 
3 
wm 
° 
