A CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Appearance; Train, if any, 

 and its Duration. 



Length of 

 Path. 



Brightest near the middle 

 of its path. 



Left a train for five 

 minutes by the watch, 

 which changed its form 

 from a straight line 

 to two straight lines, 

 making an obtuse angle 

 thus — 



and then resumed its 

 former rectilinear ap- 

 pearance. Sparks were 

 projected forward by 

 the meteor towards the 

 direction where it dis- 

 appeared. 

 Burst without noise into 

 a thousand briUiant 

 green fragments, leav- 

 ing a bright green 

 train, which, like the 

 head, broke into a per- 

 fect rain of emerald- 

 green - coloured frag- 

 ments. 



Like a piece of lighted 

 paper falling. 



About 40' 



Direction ; noting also 



whether Horizontal, 



Perpendicular, or 



Inclined. 



Horizontally to the right 



35° to the left of per- 

 pendicular; down. 



From S. to N. 



/ 



if 



Horizon. 



Remarks. 



Two meteors seen in A. S. Herschel. 

 forty-five minutes 

 clear sky ; quarter- 

 moon. 



Sufiiciently brilliant to J. S. Davies. 

 illuminate the whole. Communicated 

 vessel. The attention by A. S. Herschel, 

 of all on board of the 

 steamer was drawn to 

 it, 



Observer. 



T.W. Backhouse, 



Id. 



Id. 



A curious circumstance 

 was its stationary 

 appearance at first, 

 and its rapidly in- 

 creasing velocity 

 afterwards ; the 

 brilliant emerald 

 colour of the me- 

 teor, and of the frag, 

 ments. 



Seen in twilight ; two 

 stars only visible. 



Ernest Turner, 



• Scientific 



American,' 



Nov. 17tb. 



Coramimicated 

 byA.S. Herschel, 



J. E. Clark. 

 S. Thomson. 



