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Show o Meteor Display Is DueThisWeek-End Weather permitting, Utah people will have an excellent opportunity, beginning this Friday, to observe meteors when the earth makes its annual passage through a space particularly par-ticularly rich in "star dust," known as the Perseid meteors. The meteors will appear in their greatest numbers Saturday night. As the moon is new on Friday, conditions con-ditions should be ideal for observing them this year. The altitudes of the meteors are usually reckoned at about 70 miles and their speed 50 miles per second. They appear in the northeast sky and i are best seen after midnight. An Associated Press dispatch J Tuesday from Philadelphia bore the : request of Dr. Charles P. Olivier, I head of the' American Meteor society,: that the public keep a careful count of the number of meteors seen per! half hour, to aid in astronomical cal-! dilations. I On Friday and Saturday nights, if I the sky is clear, from 30 to 50 meteors me-teors should be seen an hour, and on Saturday night, the maximum period, per-iod, about 70 per hour should be seen, Dr. Olivier said. j |