Sep 1871
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Nature, Volume 4, Issue 98, pp. 385 (1871).
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ON Saturday, September 2, at 8.14 or 8.15 P.M., I saw a fine meteor under very favourable circumstances. I was standing with several friends at the door of Mr. W. F. Moore's house at Croakbourne, in the Isle of Man, and we were looking up at the western sky at the moment when the meteor came. It started between, I think, γ and π Herculis (it was too cloudy to see those stars), descended nearly vertically, passing through Corona Borealis, and vanished a little below ζ Bootis, at about 15° above the horizon. It moved slowly but continuously, taking from two to three seconds in travelling over 45°. It broke into three, which followed one another, connected and followed by a luminous train which was visible for about one second. The first part of the three was brilliant white, and was estimated by Mr. A. W. Moore and myself independently as equal in size to ⅛th of the moon's surface. It was very brilliant, being mistaken : by the Rev. John Howard, who was looking in another direction, for a flash of lightning. The two latter globes were blue.
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