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FIREWORKS PROMISED TONIGHT IS METEORS BEHAVE PROPERLY

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With luck, students may be able to witness a spectacular blaze of natural fireworks in the sky tonight or tomorrow night according to Fletcher Watson, Executive Secretary and Research Associate or the Blue Hills Observatory.

Meteors falling at the rate of 400 a minute for an hour and a half may be visible in the western sky some time between sunset and midnight.

Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall.

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