Show SWARM OF METEORS DUE NEXT MONTH Twice a year car ve we pass through belts of space in which swarms of aerolites are apt to occur In Iu August we pass through h a shower of met meteorites co rites which arc are termed because their origin is attributed to the constellation constellation constella constella- tion of Andromeda where herc a n hu huge o nebula neb neb- ula is spinning and condensing as if to form another planet or sun for our celestial celestial celes celes- system Another belt is usually m p passed in the earls earl part of November ember These arc t termed because because- they they are soC a associated with the constellation of Leo but the tho label on any and aud all is iB I very obscure and their ori origin in is a matter mat mat- tel ter of ingenious reasoning and much guesswork Once in I three thirty carll we pass through h the apparent orbit of leonids where th they move mo in a thick swarm In 1836 1866 about of these I were estimated to have Ju pl passed through I our atmosphere in a single ni night ht making ma ma- j I kin king a 1 grand display I IThe The orbit of these particles is retrograde retrograde retro retro- I grade but in spite of their ba ac hack k ae i tion they manage to hit up quite a 1 i ismart smart gait If an observer ner pulls his stop top watch to tina tima one of them for yards varl he should begin ugin early culy an and not in in- in any m distracting conversation COn for lor th the lIme moment for their ty tyrnn ranges s from eighteen i to thirty six x miles milesa a second nit I there is no time for tho the I timer to lose So fast is their movement move move- ment th that friction with the atmosphere heats their surfaces to the tho temperature of b boiling iron and the fused outside c cis is left behind in the form of burning vapor They rarely become visible I above an altitude of seventy live n miles and most of them Ire are dissipated in ill vapor apor before they r reach rench the tho earth fi fot the their r fall is almost almo t invariably at a I wide angle to the firth earth and the they often pass through and continue their flight I on beyond our Th The size sizo 1 t of the largest specimens is estimated at atall t tall I all the time way between a diameter of 01 I feet to a mile Consequently ons it is no norare norare rare oC occurrence for lor a specimen to stir PUT vivo ive and reach the earth larth with a solid nucleus ei weighing hin anywhere from a pound to pounds The Thor They Theare are arc comprised principally of iron and nickel and so are ar lr quite heavy In traversing tra our atmosphere here their la lasting tin powers are Ire suggestive C of the common I simile of a n sno snowballs snowball's in in tnt tra- traI I the tho iu infernal regions When such sucha a mass heated to perhaps 1000 degrees Fahrenheit t plunks into inlo moist soil or a n body hody od of water the explosive o consequence is of a hen heavy charge of dyna dyna- mite We arc are all like soldiers under constant fire but hut in all modern his history tor there is only a record of two fatalities from meteorites and the victims had hind no 1 notime notime time timo to r regret rel either cither occurrence De Detroit troit trait News I |