Oct 1874
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1874natur..10..482h&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 10, Issue 259, pp. 482-483 (1874).
Physics
Scientific paper
AT 8.55 this evening a party of six observed a meteor in the constellation Aries, or below it, which emitted light sufficient to cast a bright gleam on the neighbouring trees. The body of the meteor shot rapidly along a course extending about 20°. It then seemed to explode suddenly, and its track was luminous for a short time. The granular débris of the meteor continued to pursue with very much retarded velocity a path slightly deflected from its former course : it continued to do so for several degrees' and it was, I think, fully a minute after the explosion that several of us almost simultaneously exclaimed, ``It is falling.'' It resembled the expiring light of one globe of a rocket charged with golden rain. The falling motion was very slow, I think it was visible for two minutes after the explosion, but though we tried more, than once to consult our watches, the light was insufficient.
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