Dec 1884
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1884natur..31..150l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 31, Issue 790, pp. 150 (1884).
Physics
Scientific paper
ONE of the largest meteors that I have seen for some years appeared at 7h. 15m. 15s. this evening. It began as a speck, north of Vega, at about 4° greater altitude than that star. The course was perpendicularly down, only disappearing by passing below the horizon. It was 2° east of Vega on descending to the altitude of that star, and by that time had increased to fully a quarter the apparent size of the moon, and this size it maintained whilst above the horizon. The colour was an intense blue, and there was left a streak of orange-red elongated separate stars in its track, and this streak was about 1° in length, although the separate stars of which it consisted disappeared almost as rapidly as they were formed. The stars, like the meteor, increased in size and brilliancy from a mere point, and instantly vanished on attaining their maximum brightness. Each moved perpendicularly down for the length of about half a degree, and left a continuous momentary streak. None of these stars were seen within half a degree of the meteor, and their ignition was confined to the centre of the meteor's path. Their size was tolerably equal, being about that of a second-magnitude star. The speed of the meteor was unusually slow, it being visible for nearly six seconds. The shape was circular in front and cuneate behind (bluntly conical). Its brilliancy was great, considering the presence of a nearly full moon.
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