... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 1st December 2015: This year s Geminid meteor display, the best of the annual meteor showers, will be visible from approximately the 7th to 17th December, peaking on the evening of the 14th. ... Unlike most meteor showers, however, which originate from dust grains ejected into space by comets, the Geminid meteors originate from an unusual near-Earth asteroid, namely (3200) Phaethon. ...

The old Fortran programs have used numbering of the format statements. ... The program follows PROGRAM FORMAT IMPLICIT NONE REAL :: X CHARACTER (LEN=11) :: FORM1 CHARACTER (LEN=*), PARAMETER :: FORM2 = "( F12.3,A )" FORM1 = "( F12.3,A )" X = 12.0 PRINT FORM1, X, ' HELLO ' WRITE (*, FORM2) 2*X, ' HI ' WRITE (*, "(F12.3,A )") 3*X, ' HI HI ' END In the PRINT statement we use the character string variable FORM1 with the length 11, which is assigned its value in an explicit assignment statement. ...