Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p039

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AES ey sae eters 406 AL XANDER D. MEBANE meteors; some of these were extinguished, but many continued on- ward until lost to sight in the southeast. The spectacular display caused a sensation in the Toronto region, and Professor C. A. Chant, the Editor of The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, immediately undertook an investigation. His conclusion was that the meteors had been traveling almost horizontally at an alti- tude of not more than 30 miles (in many places loud...