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ON November 9, about 21h 25m G.M.T., Mr. J. E. Daly, in North London, saw a meteor of magnitude equal to that of Jupiter, moving from the direction of the planet Saturn towards the west. Its motion was nearly parallel to the ecliptic, and its path was over 30 °. No other observations of this meteor were reported, so it is impossible to give any details of its real path. On November 20, at 8h 23m, a bright fireball was seen by two observers in Rathmines and Mullingar, travelling from south-east to north-west. The body of the fireball gave out an intense bluish-white light, and it had a trail two to three times the apparent diameter of the moon. As it was quite light at the time, it was impossible to describe its path with sufficient precision to enable its height, etc., to be computed. If it had been dark at the time, it is certain that the fireball would have been a very imposing sight.
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Meteors. Nature 140, 1009 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401009b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401009b0