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DAYLIGHT FIREBALL.—Mr. W. F. Denning writes: “On November 25 at 4h 5m P.M., when the sun was shining, a fine meteor was seen by several persons from Cornwall and Devon. It was directed from the south-west and disappeared in the north sky at a somewhat low altitude. It left a train as it passed with moderate velocity across the heavens, and with an estimated duration of 3 seconds. The meteor was quite conspicuous and appeared like a brilliant silver ball descending at an angle of about 35° as seen from Brentor, near Tavistock. The observations are not sufficiently exact for accurate computations to be made of the real path. The height was, however, probably about 77 to 41 miles and the velocity about 34 miles per second; radiant near β Boötis or, farther back in the line of flight, at Corona (233° + 34°). The position of the meteor was over the sea W.N.W. from Fishguard to over Carmarthen in S. Wales. This meteor was the second object of the class observed in sunshine this year, the previous, one being on June 4, 4h 10m P.M.”
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 116, 913 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116913a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116913a0