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LAST evening at 9.35 p.m. a remarkably large and brilliant meteor was seen from here, appearing at a point about 10° east of η Canis Majoris, passing slowly over that star in a south-west direction, and vanishing a few degrees above the horizon; time about three seconds. Its light had a pale green tint, and in brightness and apparent diameter it far exceeded Sirius (which was particularly bright all the evening), so much so that my companions, though not looking in that direction, were instantly attracted by the light, and saw it in its splendour.
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GRIFFITH, R. A Meteor. Nature 27, 434 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027434c0
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