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accompanying chart represents the comparison of these accounts, The meteor 
accomplished a visible course of 187 miles in 4 or 5 seconds of time, with a 
velocity of 413 miles per second, from eighty-eight miles above the North Sea 
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1 Munster. 10. Goch. 23. Hawkhurst. 
2. Borgholzen. 19. Namur. 25. Leuwarden. 
4, Eupen. 20. Jodoigne. 27. Zaandam. 
5. Richterich. 21. Looz. _ 28. Deventer. 
9. Walbeck. 22. Manchester. 31. Arnheim. 
in N. lat. 53° 50', E. long. 5°, to 17 miles above the southern part of North 
Brabant in N. lat. 51° 28’, E. long. 5° 18, with a (geocentric) trajectory di- 
rected from R. A. 270°-5, N. Decl. 61°. The heliocentric trajectory is from 
R. A. 337° 47’, N. Decl. 81° 39!. 
The orbit about the sun, according to Professor Heis, is direct hyperbolic, 
like that formerly calculated by M. Petit, Director of the Observatory of 
Toulouse, of a meteor seen on the 29th October 1857. 
_ The elaborate explorations of Dr. Heis in the neighbourhood 8. of Her- 
zogenbosch in North Brabant, describe the district where fragments of the 
meteor may in future be found, if the destructible nature of meteoric stones 
leave still any hope of their recovery. 
(14.) 1863, March 23rd, 8" 30™ p.m. 
This meteor was the subject of numerous observations. It originated. 
early fifty-five miles above the sea, fifteen miles southward from Chale (in 
e Isle of Wight), and shot sixty miles in three seconds, disappearing with- 
t audible report fifteen miles above the sea, seventy miles S. of Purbeck 
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