

OBSERVATIONS OF LUMINOUS METEORS. 

 the year endino in August, 1878 — continued. 



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Length of 

 Path 



More than 

 40° 



13° 



40° 



10° 



20° 



Direction or Radiant-point 



plunging - into "fiery ele 

 ments " and drawn by them 

 to the earth, then it first 

 melted to a drop, and a se^ 

 cond time broke into frag 

 ments as it disappeared 

 (Writer in the ' Manchester 

 City News,' Feb. 23rd, 

 1878.)] 



Directed from Lyra . 



Nucleus followed by a red 

 train ; faded rapidly after 

 reaching its greatest bril 

 liancy. 



Directed from about | (&, f) 

 Ursas Majoris. 



Radiant in Triangulum (?)... 



Radiant at t 5 Geminorum .. 



Geminid , 



Radiant at « S Geminorum ... 



Appearance, Remarks, &c. 



atCathcdine,Brecknockshire, 

 states that in the previous 

 month at 5 1 ' p.m. on Oct. 18th, 

 a beautiful meteor, "like the 

 evening-star setting rapidly, 

 fell in the West ; and its 

 glow remained there when 

 the meteor set behind the 

 Alt. ' The Times,' Nov. 27th.] 

 Moved, especially towards the 

 end, witli extreme slowness, 



It exploded twice, giving off 

 orange sparks. 



A part only of its course was 



seen : the point of disap 



pearance accurate within 1° 



or 2°. 

 Nucleus with a slight train ; 



flashed out several times ; 



but seen in haze and behind 



trees. 

 Left a streak ; position not 



very accurately mapped. 



A brilliant meteor ; left a streak 

 visible for 1 second. [Iden- 

 tical with the last meteor.] 



Left a streak. 



Left a streak ; path not accu- 

 rately mapped. 



Though veiled behind cloud 

 and haze, it appeared ex- 

 tremely large. 



Observer or 

 Reference 



[At that page andal 

 p. 1 1 4 there are num- 

 berless accounts 

 finally also of a de 

 tonating meteor at 

 Strasburg, at 6 p.m. 

 on the same night.] 



G, 



L. Tupman. 

 Times,' Dec. 

 1878. 



♦The 

 3rd, 



H. Corder. 



Communicated by G. J, 

 Symons. 



Id. 



T. W. Backhouse. 



H. Corder. 



Id. 



W.M.F.P. 'Nature, 

 vol. xvii. p. 124, 

 Dec. 13th, 1877. 



H. Corder. 



Id. 



Newspaper paragraph. 



