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Show JUPITER STEALS SHOW. It looks as if the planet Jupiter has j permanently stolen one of the mostj spectacular heavenly phenomena ' which inhabitants of the earth were: privileged to witness, often in super-1 stitious terror, once every 33 years. , The swarm of meteors or shooting 1 stars due to have been seen around the middle of November, again failed , to appear in any large number. i This swarm of small heavenly bodies, bo-dies, called the Leonid meteors from their apparent origin in the constellation constella-tion Leo, made their first recorded appearance in the year 902. The most brilliant display known to history occurred oc-curred on November 12, 1833, when the sky was so filled with shooting stars that many believed the end of the world was at hand. By this time astronomers had f igur- ; ed the periodical return of the meteors and correctly predicted their appearance appear-ance on November 13, 1866, when another an-other dazzling display was seen. The next re. urn was due in 1899, but only ' a few appeared, as was the case when the 33-year period had again elapsed. ' Now it is believed that the main t swarm of meteors has been diverted! from its former path through the attraction at-traction of the planet Jupiter. If this theory be correct, the giant of our. solar system has stolen our greatest ' celestial show. And as Jupiter is 1,-300 1,-300 times as big as the earth, it is doubtful that we shall ever get our meteors back. |