[meteorite-list] Have You Seen These?

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:13 2004
Message-ID: <012a01c41e0e$43f4ab20$3438dc44_at_wbranch>

Hi Philip,

Thanks very much for the reference. I do appreciate it.

-Walter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip R. Burns" <pib_at_pibburns.com>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Have You Seen These?


> At 06:58 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>
> >At 06:15 PM 4/6/2004, Walter Branch wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone know of a place where I might be able to purchase prints of
> >>these two meteor-related images:
> >>
> >>http:/www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/leonid1833.jpg
> >>
> >>This is a woodcut of the meteor leonid shower of 1833
> >
> >Actually this woodcut shows the 1799 shower and is loosely based upon
> >observations by Andrew Ellicott Douglas from a ship off the Florida Keys.
> >I think I have a reference at home which gives a source for the image.
>
> This image was published in _The Midnight Sky_ by Edwin Dunkin, published
> in London in 1870. Dunkin was chief assistant to
> Astronomer Royal George Airy. _The Midnight Sky_ was among the
> popular works Dunkin wrote about astronomy.
>
>
> -- Philip R. "Pib" Burns
> pib_at_pibburns.com
> http://www.pibburns.com/
>
>
>
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