Apr 1896
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Nature, Volume 53, Issue 1382, pp. 581 (1896).
Mathematics
Scientific paper
IT may be of interest to record the appearance of a fine meteor, the finest I remember to have seen, on the evening of Sunday, April 12, about 8.6 p.m. I was standing in a field in the parish of Mathon, on the extreme western border of Worcestershire, when a friend who was with me drew my attention to it. The meteor was then about 20° E. of N., and roughly half-way between horizon and zenith. It passed downwards and eastwards, very slowly as it seemed to us, till it reached a spot about 30° N. of E., and perhaps 20° above the horizon, when it disappeared. Its course was right underneath the Bear, which, lying east of the pole-star, was just becoming visible at the time. The time during which we watched the meteor I should estimate at from 10 to 15 seconds. The meteor consisted of a bright head appearing many times as large as Jupiter, and a train like a rocket's, but much shorter in proportion. The night, in the intervals of fierce northwesterly squalls, was exceptionally fine and clear.
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