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150 with Q<7 au. and in this way get the final value of n. In order to study the residuals, however, it is better also to correct the individ- ual data by subtracting 0.30 from all the values of log r,/o2 belonging to meteors with Q>7 au. After the reduction of all meteors to the average density of the group of the Jupiter family, the least-squares method gives n=1.014:0.15; (46) Tante 2—Sporadic Super-Schmidt meteors divided in trco groups, short-period (Q<7 a.t.) and long-period log ro[e2, a8...