OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 

 OMITTED IN ABOVE GENERAL LIST — continued. 



Ill 



Length of 

 Path 



Very long 

 course. 



Direction or Radiant-point 



Directed exactly from Po- 

 laris. (Going towards W., 

 with a slight inclination 

 from S.E., Arras. — Shot 

 from near Ursa major 

 ' towards the left ; ' fell 

 ' almost vertically,' a little 

 inclined 'from left to 

 right ' (?), and « from N.W. 

 to S.E.' (!), Paris ; ' in di 

 rection of Boul. Sevastopol, 

 beginning over the Theatre 

 de Kenaissance,' Boul. de 

 St. Martin, Paris. Fell 

 vertically at Dijon.) 



From E. to W. 



The track and final deport- 

 ment (even to the tracks 

 taken by the three frag- 

 ments at last) of the bolide 

 of Dec. 20, 1871, at Nancy 

 (' C.R.' lxxxiv. p. 202), were 

 identical with this. 



Appearance and Remarks 



Burst like a bomb-shell. (Broke 

 into pieces at last ; lit up the 

 railway carriage in spite of 

 strong moonlight.) [Perhaps 

 identical with the next me 

 teor (?)] 



Increased rather than dimin 

 ished constantly in size as it 

 neared the horizon. (Nucleus 

 a kite- shaped body, with blue 

 and red vapour round it, and 

 a very broken flickering tail 

 expanded gradually until it 

 burst into many fireballs or 

 fragments, leaving a blue 

 streak for a few seconds only 

 Yvetot, Autheuil and Paris. 

 Moved, as it fell, by jerks, 

 Dijon ; or like a drop of gum 

 in water, Paris.) 



Three minutes later another 

 meteor near Algol shot to- 

 wards Auriga, and disap- 

 peared quickly. 



Left no streak ; no sound of an 

 explosion audible. 



Left a reddish streak ; and dis- 

 appeared without bursting. 

 But about two minutes after 

 its first appearance, a distant 

 sound was heard like that of 

 waggons rumbling on a pave- 

 ment. 



Left no streak. At bursting, 

 one fragment shot towards 5 

 Tauri, another towards, and 

 disappeared near, 6 Aurigae ; 

 and a third moved westwards 

 and disappeared in Aries. 

 The bolide of Dec. 20, 1871, 

 was also green at bursting, 

 and it left no streak. 



Observer or Reference 



See the next meteor. 



Accounts collected by 

 the Paris Observa 

 tory and by the 

 ' Association Sci en 

 tifique de France.' 

 (< Bulletin hebdo- 

 madaire ' of the ' As- 

 sociation, ' tome xxi 

 p. 205.) 



Ibid. 



Mons. Guyot ; 

 ' Comptes Rendus,' 

 vol. 86, p. 729. 



Id. ; ibid. 



Id. Ibid. [For fire- 

 balls of Dec. 20, 1871, 

 Nancy, and Dec. 20, 

 1870, Hawkhurst, 

 see these ' Reports,' 

 vol. for 1872, p. 112, 

 and vol. for 1871, p. 

 32.) 



