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IN the correspondence on the large meteor seen on June 3 I have not seen any notice of another curious meteor seen later on the same night. A flash of light in the sky drew attention to it, and when first seen it was moving in nearly a straight line from 102 Herculis to a Aquilæ. In five seconds it travelled slightly more than half the distance to the latter star, and then disappeared without any outburst. It was about a lunar diameter in length, and between 3′ and 4′ wide at the widest part, a point distant one-third of its entire length from the head. In fact it was not at all unlike a comet with a bushy tail tapering off to a point. The colour was a pale yellow.
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D., P. Meteors of June 3. Nature 28, 174 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028174b0
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