METEORIC ASTRONOMY

MEBANE, A. D. “The Canadian Fireball Procession of 1913, February 9,”

_Meteoritics_, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1956), pp. 405-421. Eyewitness accounts of

the most famous fireball procession on record.

OLIVIER, C. P. _Meteors_, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1925. An

exhaustive survey of work done by visual meteor-observers.

SCHIAPARELLI, G. V. _Shooting Stars_, a translation by C. C. Wylie and

J. R. Naiden, published in the _Proceedings, Iowa Academy of Science_,

Vol. 50 (1943), pp. 48-153. A pioneer treatise, dated 1867, which is

basic to later work in this field.

WHIPPLE, F. L. “Photographic Meteor Studies, I,” _Proceedings, American

Philosophical Society_, Vol. 79, No. 4 (1938), pp. 499-548. Fundamental

paper on the subject. Of the six meteors analyzed, five followed

elliptical orbits and one, a strongly hyperbolic orbit.

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