Shapley Calls Meteor Shower, Rocket Data Year's Highlights

Pointing to developments of stratospheric rockets and "satellite" laboratories high above the earth's surface as highlights of a busy astronomic year, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, hit the bright spots of recent celestial investigations in an address to the annual dinner of the American Association of Variable Star Observers in Cambridge last week.

Most spectacular events of the period were the spectacular shower of meteors this mouth and the earlier explosion of the start T Coronae Borcalis after a dormancy of eighty years.