Mar 1903
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1903natur..67..464l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 67, Issue 1742, pp. 464 (1903).
Physics
Scientific paper
I SEND an account of a meteor, to me remarkable because of its extremely slow movement and also because of its apparently reaching the surface of the earth, a little east of north-east of here. The ``falling star'' was about equal in brightness to Sirius. When first it attracted my attention it would be just below the cluster ``Coma Berenices.'' So slowly was it falling that I first mistook it for the fixed star Arcturus, the resemblance being probably increased by its colour, which was reddish. It slowly dropped vertically downwards, its brilliancy keeping constant; it left no trail. Its line of descent would make a small angle with the line δβ Leonis. I watched it fall right to ground-but it may not have quite reached earth, as there was a rise in the ground before me.: About one-third of its distance from the ground it appeared to ``wobble,'' but that may have been an illusion. It fell so slowly as to take quite five seconds. The time was about 7.22 p.m. on March 15, when I was a little more than a mile to the south of Basing-stoke.
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