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ON Friday evening last, July 9, at 9b.45m., I saw a very fine meteor about equal in brightness to Venus at her maximum, moving very slowly from nearly west to south-west. I did not see its origin. It passed about 4° above Spica, and disappeared soon afterwards, as nearly as I could estimate, in altitude 16° and azimuth 50° west of S. Its apparent course was only slightly inclined to the horizon, approaching it at an angle of about 1 in 10.
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PENROSE, F. Large Meteor. Nature 22, 267 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022267a0
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