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ON Tuesday night, November 15, a wonderfully fine meteor was seen at Falmouth, and being out star-gazing at the time, I was fortunate enough to see it. I was looking towards that part of the Milky Way between Auriga, Perseus, and Cassiopeia, when suddenly a curved train of light flashed out; but, instead of just going away, it remained visible for quite eight seconds; meanwhile the lower extremity burst into a brilliant mauve “cone” of light, about a quarter the size of the full moon. So bright was it that it lit up the roadway, quite overpowering the lamps.
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TRUSCOTT, B. Meteor. Nature 37, 105 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037105b0
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