Show number of telescopic meteors every observer notes a cons demable number of small meteors while he is engaged in telescopic observation the field of view of a telescope Is a very small fraction of the whole surface of the heavens A simple proportion based on the number of observed me geors enables an estimate of the num her of meteors in the whole sky to be made this estimate has been made by dr see of the naval observatory at washington who concludes that about 1 telescopic meteors appear in the whole sky daily about ten to fifteen million meteors bright enough to be visible to the naked eye encounter the earth daily according to the calculations of prof newton most of them are consumed in the at mo sphere the increment of the mass of the earth Is extremely small |