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IN regard to the meteor seen by your correspondent P. F. D. at Hendon on the 6th inst., at 8.53 p.m., in a clear sky and broad daylight, I have the following entry in my diary under the same date: “Meteor going south-east through Cassiopeia at seven minutes to nine; daylight.” It was indeed a remarkable meteor. The sun had set about half an hour. I happened at the time to be looking intently at that part of the north-east sky in which it appeared. What struck me most was the brilliant sparkling silvery light given off by the fragments into which it divided just before disappearing. I estimated that it would strike the horizon about the south-east point.
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JENKINS, B. A Remarkable Meteor. Nature 28, 300 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028300b0
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