OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 



Ill 



Length of 

 Path. 



Direction or Radiant-point. 



About 2.")° 



27 



About 15° 



28° 



Nearly vertical, thus — 



Appearance, Remarks, &e. 



The explosion only, like that of 

 an unusually brilliant rocket, 

 seen through clouds. 



Observer 

 or Reference. 



T. M. Fallow. 



Communicated by 

 \V. F. Denninsr. 



10° 



From the direction of e Fersei 



Fell vertically, N. to S. 



The momentary light-streak 

 left on its whole course 

 pointed out its track from 

 S. to N. [?ATaurid.] 



In first third part of its'J. J. Plummer. 



course rather brighter than 



a first - magnitude star. In 



the second it grew tn 



many times the brightness 



of Venus, and collapsed 



suddenly to its first ap 



pearance. In the last, third 



of its course it expanded 



again to the brightness 



of the full moon, when it 



disappeared suddenly with 



out explosion and without 



sound, leaving a streak vi- 

 sible in this part of its 



course for 16 minutes. 



[See other descriptions of 



this meteor in Appendix I 



pp. 135 and 138.] 

 A very fine meteor, leaving 



a bright streak for two se- 

 conds across £ Ceti. Very ac- 

 curately noted. 

 The smallest objects were visible 



in its light. Left a streak 10° 



long and £° wide visible for 



more than 15 minutes ; at first 



straight, and soon becoming Z 



shaped. 



Nucleus elongated. Left a light- 

 streak on its course which 

 remained visible 5 m or 10 m 

 after the meteor had disap- 

 peared. 



W. F. Denning. 



The 'New York Ob- 

 server,' Nov. 9th, 

 1870. 



Communicated bv 

 R. P. Gre<r. 



A bright meteor, even in full- Communicated by 

 moon light. \y. F. Denning. 



Globular nucleus ; the re 

 fleeted light from which 

 drew the observer's at 

 tention to it, so as to 

 note its explosion near a Ursae, 

 and the streak of light broader 

 than the meteor, which va- 

 nished quite slowly. 



. Meunier. 

 ' Comptes Rendus,' 

 vol. lxxxiii. p. 862. 



