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BEPORT 1879. 



A List of Large Meteors occasionally 



Date 



Hour 



Approx. 



G.M.T. (or 



Local Time) 



Feb. 3 



h m 



(11 30 p.m. 

 Ind. time.) 



6 59 p.m. 



20 6 43 p.m. 



Place of 

 Observation 



22 



23 



24 



About 

 12 20 a.m 



About 

 6 45 p.m. 



2 53 a.m 

 (York 



Minster 

 time.) 



U.S. [For a 

 description of 

 its real path 

 see Appendix 



I-] 



Raysville, 

 Henry Co., 

 Ind., U.S. 



Birkdale 

 Observatory, 

 Southport. 



Putney Hill, 

 London. 



Bury St. Ed 

 munds (and 

 elsewhere in 

 Surrey, Es- 

 sex, and Suf- 

 folk). [See 

 description of 

 the real path 

 in Appendix 

 I-] 



Apparent Size 



Larger than the 

 fireball of Dec, 

 21, 1876. 



Brighter than 

 Venus. 



Kersal, near 

 Manchester 



York (four or 

 five good ob- 

 servations 

 among nume- 

 rous descrip- 

 tions). [The 

 next observa- 

 tion to this 

 refers to the 

 same 

 meteor.] 



As bright as Rigel 



Large fireball 

 (Lit up a room 

 facing south 

 at Godalming, 

 Surrey.) 



Colour 



Princeton). 



Duration 



Brilliant meteor 



*to 



. the moon's 

 diameter, with a 

 haze or 'glory 

 round it 4 x 

 the moon's dia> 

 meter. 



Red 



White, or 

 yellowish. 



(Brilliant 

 white, then 

 pink, then 

 green ; 

 Brentwood, 

 Essex.) 



White, 

 changing 

 to blue, or 

 bluish 

 green. 



Princeton, 

 Wisconsin) 



Brief dura- 

 tion ; only 

 a few 

 seconds. 



Quick 

 motion. 



Position or 

 Apparent Path 



From to 



a 8 a 8 



right shoulde 

 in S.W., and i 

 passed by bin 

 to N.E. on hi 

 left. 



Rose from thi 

 eastern horizon 

 and burst jus 

 before reaching 

 the zenith, thi 

 fragments no 

 proceeding ver] 

 far. 



From 7±° + 32 t< 

 342£° +62°. 



2-3 seconds . From 25° + 40° tc 

 32° + 35°. 



(20 seconds 

 Saffron 

 Walden. 5 

 or 6 se- 

 conds, Go- 

 dalming 

 and Haver- 

 hill. Seve- 

 ral seconds 

 Brent- 

 wood.) 



Moved 

 slowly ; 

 time to call 

 another 

 person's 

 attention 

 to it. 

 2 seconds.' 

 '3 or 4 se 

 eonds, &c.' 

 Perhaps 

 about 6 

 seconds, at 

 full bright- 

 ness, from 

 general ac- 

 counts. 



In the west, fall- 

 ing downwards 

 to the earth. 

 (The glare in the 

 cloudy sky was 

 strongest in the 

 S.E., at Haver^ 

 hill, and at 

 Saffron Walden, 

 a little S.E. oi 

 the zenith. At 

 Brentwood the 

 track passed 

 overhead.) 



' At a small angle ' 

 just below the 

 new moon. 



i), 



Passed from N 

 (probably a lift 

 S. of the zenith), 

 nearly over- 

 head, to a point 

 (measured by 

 the towers of 

 the Minster) at 

 41° W. for S, 

 (true). Alt. 10° 

 (Other notes 

 were 53° and 

 48° W. for S.J 



