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Personal EE, in Observing Occultations 403 plot of Chant’s de on the nearer to Chant’s great circle. | and Pickering’s great circles, givii © =~ equator of 3°, supposes the true d meteors to be 2° or 8 min. which the writer su supposes to be not lands was computed as 4353 mi.; then the velocity would be about 9 mi/sec, which lies between the limits, 5 to 10 mi/sec, originally computed by Chant from duration -estimates in Ontario. The heights at p served angular al ts beyond the Ontario Station...