OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 

 OBSERVED, CHIEFLY in THE YEAKS 1878-1879 — continued. 



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Length of 

 Path 



6° or 6° 



Direction or liadiant-poiut 



Towards S.E. 



25° 



Rather long 

 path. 



Descending obliquely to- 

 wards S.E. 



Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



an earthquake shock, which 

 died away slowly. 



Began like moonlight in N.E. 

 Dense luminous train, with 

 dropping sparks. Faint re- 

 port like distant thunder, 

 (Report at Gunby, near Filey, 

 intense ; not quite so strong 

 as loudest thunder. At Hull, 

 fainter, heard in 2 m .) 



Observer or Reference 



I. Heselton (of ship 

 ' Margery ; Seaham 

 to Scarborough.) 

 Communicated by 

 J. E. Clark. 



Nucleus quite round 



Two minutes later a rather 

 brighter meteor appeared at 

 the same place, with a course 

 of 2° towards S.S.E. 



The meteor burst £° np. 5 Ursa? 

 majoris. 



Increased in brightness con- 

 stantly, with some fluctua- 

 tions, till it disappeared, 

 The sparkling tapering tail, 

 2° or 3° long, was brightest 

 near the nucleus. A fine 

 meteor. 



Train 



Communicated by J. 



L. McCance, in ' The 



Observatory,' vol. ii. 



p. 417. 

 C. E. B. 'Nat. Hist 



Journal,' vol, iii. p 



50. 



V. Cornish, ' The Ob- 

 servatory,' vol. iii. p, 

 22. 



J. W. Backhouse. 



A fine meteor ; 

 clouds and haze. 



seen through 



Seen by two gentlemen, who 

 immediately described its 

 course to Mr. Denning. 



Communicated by W, 



F. Denning. ' The 

 Observatory,' vol. 

 iii. p. 417. 



Communicated by H. 



A. Newton. Boston 



' Science Observer,' 



vol. ii. p. 51. 

 W. H. M. Christie 



Communicated by 



G. L. Tupman. 



Communicated by 

 W. F. Denning. 



