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Report of the Committee on luminous Meteors, by Mr. Glaisher. —The appearance of meteors noticed in published journals, and otherwise ascertained by the committee during the past year, include some striking examples of such remarkable exhibitions, discussed and investigated very ably by astronomers, as well as of others passing almost unobserved excepting by accidental gazers. A few such large meteors were doubly observed in England. Some have been visible in the day-time, while many other large and small fire-balls have been described to the committee, of which it is to be regretted that notices have hitherto only reached them from single observers. The months in which these phenomena have been most abundant were September, December, and January last, April, June, and again quite recently, the last few days of July and beginning of August of this year. The report contains descriptions of the brightest of these meteors, and an account of Prof. Galle's calculations and inquiries regarding the real cause of two large meteors which passed over Austria on the 12th and 19th of June last, with the probable path that he assigned to them. If a mass of burning sulphur found on the ground immediately after the disappearance of the latter meteor is not considered presumably meteoric, no occurrence of a fall of aerolites, as far as the committee is aware, has taken place during the past year.
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The British Association . Nature 10, 430–431 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010430a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/010430a0