There is a. clock in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, in England, which has never varied more than onetwentieth of a second in a day. There are equally accurate clocks in the observatories of Leyden, Berlin and Washington. Falling stars are really meteors. Most of them aro supposed to be fragments of broken-up comets which come hurtling into the atmosphere of tho earth. When they come in contact with the gases there they are set on hre by friction*
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6810, 17 March 1932, Page 3
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