Meteor Observed at Mauritius

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Jan 1873

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Nature, Volume 7, Issue 169, pp. 221 (1873).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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ON Nov. 7 last, about 7 o'clock. P.M., I saw the most beautiful meteor fall that I ever remember observing in my life. My face was turned in the opposite direction, but an unusually brilliant and sudden flash of light, above the brightness of the moonshine, caused me to turn suddenly round in the direction the effulgence came from, and I saw a very large meteor majestically falling through the distance, seemingly of about eight or ten yards. I am not much of an astronomer, but I think it must have fallen, apparently, from some point in Aquarius. What particularly struck me in its appearance was that it was beautifully distinct, and round as the full moon, but seemingly about the ⅛th of a diameter larger. I ought, perhaps, rather to compare it to the moon at the end of her first quarter. [See p. 231 of this Number.]

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