Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 146 No. 4 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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| VoL. CXLVI SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922 NUMBER 4 By RAY CUMMINGS Author of ‘‘ The Golden Atom,’’ etc. CHAPTER I, , THE COMING OF THE LIGHT. SHE first of the hew meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, short- ly after daybreak on the morning of the rth. Astronomicall, y, the event was re- corded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space 1A ‘ 481 zs of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly fading again to invisibility. This star was recorded by two of the other great North American observatories, and by one in the Argentine Republic. That it was comparatively small in mass and exceedingly close to the earth, even when first discovered, was obvious. All observ- ers agreed that it was a heavenly body of an entirely new order. The observatory oo Haryard supplement- OMmMicOoks.Com!