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As meteors are rarely seen by day, I write to inform you that I observed one this morning, at exactly 10.20 A.M., not only in broad daylight, but in bright sunshine. I only caught a hasty glance of it as it was disappearing. It was in the eastern side of the sky, descending towards a point in the horizon nearly due north from us, at an angle of about 40°. As we are quite in the country, it could not have been anything else than a meteor. I found that two of our servants had seen it also, and described it as having a tail, which I did not see.
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ELLIOT, J. Meteor. Nature 17, 425 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017425a0
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