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A MAGNIFICENT meteor was observed here last night. Its path lay from the west of σ Hydræ towards the west of η Monocerotis. Its head could not exactly be said to explode but broke up and extended suddenly considerably along its course, emitting a deep red and bluish white light, the latter of a most extraordinary brightness, for a moment quite sufficient to allow print to be discerned. It disappeared very near 11h. 19m. 6s. M.T. Dublin, and left a bluish white trace behind it, which could still with certainty be perceived seventeen minutes after the meteor had disappeared.
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BOEDDICKER, O. A Large Meteor. Nature 31, 194 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031194c0
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