Nov 1882
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Nature, Volume 27, Issue 683, pp. 100 (1882).
Computer Science
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FOLLOWING up my last week's letter concerning the electric meteoroid, if one may so term it, of the 17th inst., I have sifted all the testimony within my knowledge, assigning a numerical weight to each report from internal evidence of its probable value, and correcting for latitude where the altitude of the moon was made the standard of comparison. With data so precarious, and triangles so ill-conditioned, the results can of course only be regarded as a very rough approximation to the truth; for what they are worth, however, they are as follows:-I. That the course of the meteoroid was about S. 70° W. Probably it was 71° 45', the complement of the magnetic declination. 2. That there was a proper motion of a little more than a mile a minute. 3. That the path was vertically over a line upon the earth's surface, whose least distance from Greenwich was 72 miles. 4. That the actual elevation was 44 miles. On this reckoning the body would seem to have crossed in the zenith in North Belgium, the Boulogne district, Cherbourg, and the north coasts of Brittany.
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