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ON Wednesday night the 6th November, whilst looking from this place over the sea, directly west, a few minutes before ten o'clock, I saw a meteor of large size subtending I should think one-sixth the angular magnitude of the moon. It was accompanied by a short scintillating train, and moved slowly quite parallel with the horizon directly north. Its elevation was about 15°, and its rate of motion I should think 11/2° per second. The night was dark and somewhat cloudy, and the line described by the meteor seemingly quite straight.
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WINSTANLEY, D. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 7, 29 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007029a0
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