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DETONATING FIREBALL IN SUNSHINE.—Mr. W. F. Denning writes that this object observed by him on February 7 at 3.55 p.m. appears to have been seen by comparatively few observers, although the loud detonations which followed it were heard by large numbers of people, chiefly in Warwickshire, over which county the fireball passed. It seems to have caused the loudest reports near the middle section of its flight, in the region of Quinton, Feckenham, Mere Hall, and Droitwich. At some places there was only one sound heard, at others two, but all the observers agree that the concussion and vibration were of startling intensity. The detonations were heard along a line directed from S.E. to N.W. The radiant point of the meteor was at 60°–11°, and the height from 56 to 32 miles; the length of luminous flight was 82 miles, and velocity about 10 miles per second. The position of the object was from over Oxfordshire to Shropshire.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 109, 249 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109249a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109249a0