A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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ipearance; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



glit train 



I train 5° 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



20° 



( train 10 



Remarks. 



Inclined 



Very slow motion 



train or sparks 

 train or sparks 

 e train 



Observer. 



\rthur Harding. 



W. C. Nash. 



Arthur Harding. 



A. S. Herschel. 



Id. 



F. P. Trapaud ; 

 Ernest Jones. 



(3.) Detonating Meteor ; 1864, November 20th, 9 h 50 ra p.m. 

 Disappeared over the North Sea, not far from the mouth of the Humber 

 oft the coast of Lincolnshire. A few minutes after the appearance a report 

 was heard near Uppingham, in Rutlandshire, like the discharge of cannons in 

 the distance. The descriptions at Manchester, Mobberly, Weston-super-Mare 

 &c, leave no doubt that the meteor was directed from N.E. The detonating 

 S aU ^T hlch occurred under similar circumstances of time and place, on the 

 19th of November 1861, was directed from a little E. of S., or very nearly 

 trom an opposite direction. In other respects the two meteors resemble one 

 another veiy closely (v. Report, 1862, p. 79). 



(4.) Fireball ; 1864, December 9th, 3 h 45 m a.m. 



The meteor observed at Manchester disappeared N.E. At Hawkhurst the 

 point ot disappearance was 8° above the horizon, N.N.W. The situation of 

 this point is therefore fixed. The flight was directed from the usual radiant 

 ot the 6th to the 13th of December, between Gemini and Auriga, and thus 

 the rest of the flight is easily determined. Path seventy-five miles in 

 1-3 second, directed from R. A. 95°, N. Deck 30°. Velocity fifty-eight miles 

 per second. Began ninety miles above Todmorden, in Lancashire. Disap- 

 peared thirty miles over York. Although a vivid meteor, no report succeeded 

 its appearance at Manchester. 



1865. 



