A CATAtOGUK Ol' UUSfiHVATIOXS OF LUMlxXOUS METEOIl;?. 233 



ipearance; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



e meteor itself not 

 seen. The whole 

 heavens seemed to 

 be a mass of bright 

 blue light followed 

 immediately by a 

 crimson hue of equal 

 brilliancy. 



."ket-like. A huge fire- 

 tall with a flare of light 

 ike the comet seen at 

 .ondon some years 

 ince. It came silently 

 nd collapsed sud<ienly. 



ed ball emitting bright 



parks, and followed by 



flaming tail of great 



iiigth. 



idden flash of light liiic- 

 ghtning. 



increased from 

 small ball, so as, ,„ 

 ibout two seconds, to 

 ibscure the moon ; 

 ind burst into " varie- 

 jated stars, springing 

 "rom a body which 

 kssumed the shape of 

 I huge luminous di- 

 l.ing-bell;. I can liken 

 t to nothing else." 

 ilually increased until, 

 1 crossing Ursa Minor, 

 I burst ; the fragments 

 reading in a coue, 15° 

 jde at the base, which 

 IS turned towards the 

 Irth. The meteor at 

 jc same time turned! 

 fJ, and the fragments! 

 i;re blue, yellow, and' 

 |3cn. 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Remarks. 



Observer. 



Descending towards the 

 earth. 



Descended in an easterly 

 direction at an air^le 

 of about 45° towards 

 the horizon. 



From S. toN. 



Directed towards N.E. 



09. 



The night ■vvas clear and 

 frosty. The observer's 

 attention was attract- 

 ed by seeing the sha- 

 dows of houses clearly 

 thrown across the 

 parade. 



A very startling and im- 

 posing meteor. The 

 whole sky seemed on 

 fire. The flash of light 

 illumined the interior 

 of a room, at Bekes- 

 bourne, for 4 or 5 

 seconds. 

 The sky was clear. 

 A vivid flash of 

 bluish light illumin- 

 ed surrounding ob- 

 jects, overpowering 

 the light of the 

 moon, and casting 

 actual shadows on 

 the ground. 

 A beautiful starlight 

 night. Seen also ir 

 several parts of the 

 metropolis. 

 During twenty - eight 

 years' night - watch- 

 ing, and twelve more 

 spent at sea, no me- 

 teor was before seen 

 so large and brilliant. 



J. Fuller ; 

 ' -Alidlaud 

 Counties 

 E.\pre3S.' 



A.dara Dickson 

 (Ibid). 



P. H. Lawrence ; 

 ' The Times,' 

 Oct. 9th. 



T. r. P. (Ibid). 



John Burt ; 

 ' Daily Tele- 

 graph,' Oct, 

 10th. 



About 5™ 28'' after its 

 disappearance, a loud 

 explosion like the 

 bursting of a mine 

 in the neighbour- 

 hood v.as heard. 

 The explosion was 

 heard at Paris also 

 by M. Le Bacilly 

 [Ibid.] ; and the me- 

 teor was seen at 

 Diisseldorf, in Ger- 

 many ['LesMondes,' 

 Second Series, xviii, 

 282]. 



An extremely bright 

 meteor. No sound 

 of an explosion was 

 heard. 



Mons. Treme- 

 chini ; ' Comp. 



tes Rendus,' 

 vol. Ixvii, p. 

 771, Oct. 12th 



18G8. 



Mons. Morren 

 (Ibid). 



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