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REPORT — 1879. 



REAL PATHS OF LARGE METEORS DOUBLY OBSERVED 



Date and Hour, G.M.T. (or Local 

 Time). Size and General Appear- 

 ance 



Principal Places of 

 Observation 



1858, Aug. 13, 6 h 39 m p.m., £ moon's 

 diameter. White, globular, 

 with short bluish tail, and long 

 white comet-like train pursuing 

 it, but not persistent. 



1868, Sept. 5, 8 h 35 m p.m 

 (Berne time.) 



1873, Dec. 24 (7" 39 m p.m.W.M.T.) 

 Conical nucleus, brighter than 

 full moon ; yellow, with short 

 tail of red and blue sparks. 

 Burst (?) with loud detonation ; 

 left no streak. 



1877, Oct. 8, 12" p.m. midnight. 

 Bright fireball with long streak. 



1877, Dec. 9, 8" 12 m p.m. A fine 

 meteor = Jupiter, with long 

 course and streak, ' mauve 

 purple and green colours. 



1878, April 2, 7" 54 ra p.m. De- 

 tonating fireball ; ^ moon's dia- 

 meter; red; slow, halting mo- 

 tion ; burst into fragments. 



1878, Aug. 11 (about 10 h 10 m p.m.) 

 ^ diameter of, and outshone 

 full moon ; greenish ; burst into 

 three red fragments, and deto 

 nated. 



London, and Ryde, I. of 



Wight. 



Tours, Clermont Fer- 

 rand,Picde Sancy, &c, 

 France ; Mayence ; 

 Zurich, Morges, Gene- 

 va ; Bergamo ; Ger- 

 many, Italy, and 

 Switzerland. 



Washington, and neigh- 

 bouring towns in Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland ; 

 and at Richmond, 

 Newark, Danbury, &c, 

 in the United States. 



Bristol, Antwerp, and 

 near Mezieres, France. 



Royal Observatory, 



Greenwich, London, 

 Bromley, and Writtle 

 (Chelmsford). Three 

 or four good observa- 

 tions, compared to- 

 gether by Major Tup- 

 man. 



Blackheath, Birming- 

 ham, and Leicester. 

 Calculated path by 

 Major Tupman and 

 Professor Herschel. 



Bloomington, Indiana ; 

 Virginia and Penn- 

 sylvania. Notice and 

 calculation of the 

 meteor's path by Pro- 

 fessor Kirkwood. 



Meteor's Real Course 



Height and Locality of 

 Beginning End 



28 m. (?) over a 

 point 20 m. sea 

 ward from the 

 French coast at 

 Dieppe (?) 



460 m. over a point 

 a little W. of Si- 

 nope, Asia Minor. 

 [Or (?) 250 m. 

 over Belgrade.] 



About 90 m. over a 

 point near New- 

 castle in the 

 northern part of 

 Delaware State, 

 30 m. S.W. from 

 Philadelphia. 



80 m. over a point 

 15 m. W. of Alle- 

 maar, Holland. 



55 m. over Stoke 

 Ferry, Norfolk. 



60 m. over a point 

 10 m. S. from 

 Leicester. 



About 77 m. over 

 the northern part 

 of Western Vir- 

 ginia (300 m. due 

 E. from Blooming- 

 ton ; alt. 10°.) 



12 m. (?) over a 

 point midway be 

 tween Brighton 

 and Cherbourg. 



115[or(?)70,or 100] 

 m. over Ozaine, 

 nearTours,France. 



10 or 20 (?) m. over 

 point near Fairfax 

 Co., Virg., 30 or 

 60 (?) m. W.S.W. 

 from Washington. 

 Distance of the 

 track from Wash 

 ington by the 

 sound-interval 

 there, 31 m. 



35 m. over a point 

 60 m. W. of the 

 same town. 



36 m. over Stratford - 

 on-Avon. 



15 m. (end-height 

 very well deter 

 mined) over a 

 point 5 m. W. 

 from Coventry, 

 35 m. (agreeing 

 with the time- 

 interval of the 

 sound) from Lei- 

 cester. 



15 or 20 m. (?) over 

 Crawford County, 

 Pa. ; distance (by 

 interval of the 

 sound) W. of Ti- 

 tusville in that 

 county, 25 m. 



