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REPORT — 1872. 



GEIs^EEAL LIST OF BOLIDES AND 



Date. 



1783 

 Jan. 8 



Sept.26 



Nov. 2. 



1794. 



June 28 



1871. 

 Sept. 1 



10 



Hour. 



h m s 

 Evening .. 



8 55 p.m. 

 3 55 a.m. 



Place of 

 Observation. 



Slough, Bucks... 



[hid , 



Ibid, 

 Ibid, 



10 45 p.m. Knocklong, Co, 

 Limerick. 



10 43 p.m. 



Knocklong, Co. 

 Limerick. 



Apparent Size. 



Very bright . 



Brilliant 



Large and bright. 

 Rocket-like 



Very brilliant 



Verv bright.,. 



Colour. 



Very white 



17 10 7 p.m. Between Alder- 

 shot and Farn- 

 ham. 



Oct. 8 



11 



11 



10 28 51 

 p.m. 



Regent's Park, 

 London. 



About iBrompton, Lou- 



12 7 or 

 12 10 a.m. 



don. 



9 5 50 Royal Observa- 

 p.m. tory, Greenwich 



Fully as bright 

 Venus. 



Nearly as bright 

 Venus. 



as 



Very large 



Nov. 9 11 56 10 

 p.m. 



11 



8 17 30 

 p.m. 



121 7 45 p.m. 

 (Possible 

 error 2™.) 



ibid. 



Brighter than J 

 piter. 



Showed most 

 beautiful CO 

 lours. 



White 



Intensely vivid 

 green. 



11- Bluish ; the 

 fragments 

 crimson. 



Brighter than Ju- 

 piter. 



Bluish 



(bid. 



Twice as bright nb Bluish-white 

 Jupiter. 



Tenby, Soutli Brighter than the 

 Wales. fixed stars. 



Orange-yellow 



Duration. 



Position. 



Passed along close 

 under a Lvrae. 



Dropped from S 

 Cygni. 

 Meteor-streak. 



Ursa Major. 



In the southern sky 

 at an elevation of 

 about 20°. 

 First visible near 

 Pegasus and passed 

 across the sky to 

 Capella. 



«= = 



From 328°+ 17° 

 to 300- 2^, 

 ending its flight 

 a little beyond i 

 Aquila;. 

 From altitude 45°, 

 15° W. from S., 

 to altitude 30° or 

 35°, 20' W. from 

 S. 

 By the side and to 

 the north of Ju- 

 piter; about as far 

 from him as Cas- 

 torisfromPollux. 

 Moved from Polaris 

 inanearlystraigi 

 line between e am 

 K Ursa; Majoris 



6 seconds. ... Passed between 

 and e Leonis. 



Slowand state- 

 ly motion. 



Slow motion. 



Two or three 

 seconds. 



6 seconds. 





1 second From near the PleJ 



j iades, passed closd 

 i to y Tauri aboul 

 i halfway between 

 and X Tauri. 



2 or 3 seconds. Course as in sketch.! 



Slow motion. 



'S a.* 



Ursa Major 



