Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-12 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

Freaks and Oddities In In Science News Another nother nIght nIgh of the falling h hairs ilS a visitation of the tho Leonid meteors is 15 due on one of the first four tour nights next week The latest prehistoric record of these Leonid meteors me me- has been found stone in ruins of the ancient Mayan Civilization In Yucatan Th story has It that the hairs fell from heaven with the lord of the dead The stone bearing this record is 15 believed to HAIRS THAT have been set up about FELL FROM before the arrival of the Span Span- HEAVEN BEAVEN WITH WIT lards in Mexico The Leonids appear in the east after midnight For the past three years a few have been seen each November midi and astronomers predict that another great fiery shower may occur during any of the next three No No- vemb rs For more than 1000 years years' these Leonids Le about three e times each century have turned night Into a beautiful but awful sort of day for several hours at ata ata ata a time Chinese records speak of them in In 1202 in Russia a shower of Leonids was mistaken for forthe forthe forthe the end of the world In 1505 there was a display of Leonids In Russia which a clergyman named described thus It I r saw 0 a a large number of angels shooting from the sky with ith f arrows In 1833 the ther Leonids were seen in Pennsylvania so 50 thickly that they were likened to falling snow Dr Willard J. J Fisher meteor expert of the Harvard Harvard Har Bar vard yard observatory says the time when the Leonids may appear this month Is uncertain but Is 15 more likely tobe to tobe tobe be after midnight Monday November 16 The public again is requested to report to astronomers astronomers mers users the number of meteors it sees the period of time of or observation directions and courses In the sky and very bri brilliant meteors