OBSERVATIONS OP LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Length of 

 l'ath. 



Short course 

 only seen. 



About 10° (?). 



About 20° 



Direction or Radiant-point, j Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



Observer 

 or Reference. 



horizontally south- Globular nucleus, leaving a slight Described 

 [? A Taurid, near streak on its course, 



Moving 

 wards 

 its radiant-point.] 



The course before the meteor 

 divided was sinuous. 

 [Not a Taurid.] 



Directed from Saturn (334°, 

 -13°). 



Travelled horizontally towards 

 the south [?] or south-west. 

 (So also described at Slough, 

 moving over a long arc of 

 the sky.) 



About 10° of 

 its path vi- 

 sible. 



Divided into two parts in mid- 

 path, one falling to W., the 

 other towards N.\V. [? Another 

 meteor starting from the path 

 of the first. W. F. Denning.] 



Cecil H. C. Percival. 

 ' Nature,' vol. xv. p 

 79. (Nov. 23rd, 

 1876.) 



H. Corder. 



S.March(and"J.A.G.") 

 The ' Times,' Nov. 

 10, 187G. 



Burst twice, emitting bluish 

 sparks the last time at its dis- 

 appearance. (Seen also near 

 Buntingford, Herts ; in the 

 east, moving towards the 

 north. — R. P. Greg.) 



Probably burst, as there was a 

 brilliant flash. The meteor's 

 course imperfectly seen. 



Burst into fragments, of which 

 five or six were counted 

 while disappearing behind 

 a dark cloud, and left a 

 streak visible after the 

 fragments disappeared. Seen 

 in fading daylight. 

 [See Appendix I., p. 141, 

 for further observations of 

 this meteor.] 



The path curved downward 

 near extinction, like that of a 

 projectile, and the meteor sepa- 

 rated into several distinct glo- 

 bules of light following in the 

 same train. 



Passed slanting downwards.'Nudeus with a great tail which Communicated by 



by 

 A. Guillemin in 

 ' Comptes Rendus,' 

 vol. lxxxiii. p. 922. 



. Nostro. 



' Nature,' vol. xv. 

 p. 59 (Nov. 16,1370). 



F. C. Penrose. 

 Ibid. 



[Position at Bristol bv de- 

 scription, from 236°, +50° 

 to 241°, +35° (?).— W. F. 

 Denning.] 



threw off sparks on both sides. 

 Twilight still very strong in 

 the western sky. The night 

 afterwards was clear ; but few 

 shooting-stars were visible. 



T. W. Webb, in the 

 ' English Mechanic' 



1*77. 



