November 3rd, ipr^.] Proceedings. 



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The point from which it came, 348° + 2°N, was given as 

 the radiant, and is the position that comet Daniels would have 

 passed in the year 1907, though we should have been in 

 proximity on September 12th rather than on October 13th; 

 but during this period there have been several very bright 

 meteors from this particular radiant. 



In reference to this Aerolite the following note from 

 Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., was also read : — 



Alderley Edge, 



November 2nd, 19 14. 



I notice that the meteorite, which fell at Standish, near 

 Wigan, on the 13th ult., is to be exhibited at the forthcoming 

 meeting of the Society by the Curator of the Godlee Observa- 

 tory. It may be of interest to the members to know that the 

 meteorite passed over Alderley about 8-45 p.m. in a north- 

 westerly direction, leaving a luminous trail behind it. The 

 passage was followed two minutes afterwards by a deep booming 

 explosion, which shook the windows of houses on the Edge and 

 caused some alarm to members of my household. 



From the interval of time between the disappearance of the 

 meteorite and the explosion, the distance from Alderley was 

 calculated from the velocity of sound (1,130 feet per second) to 

 be 26 miles; a near approximation to the. place where the 

 meteorite was subsequently found. 



i.no feetx 120 seconds = t^k. 600 , •, 



' ° — H2 =26 miles. 



1 mile= 5,280 feet 



In my paper, read before the Society in 19 10, vol. lv., 

 " On the Origin of Cometary Bodies" attention was directed to 

 Schiaparelli's discovery that the orbits of certain comets are 

 identical with those of the well-known streams of November 

 meteors. I also stated that the place of origin of these erratic 

 bodies is within the confines of the Solar system. All meteorites, 

 as is well known, are mechanical mixtures of elementary sub- 

 stances and their compounds, and further indicate them as the 

 ejectamenta of planetary bodies. II. VVlLDS. 



