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ON the evening of Saturday last, at 10.12 p.m., a remarkable meteorite was observed close to Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire. It presented the appearance of a bright spherical ball, which moved horizontally from east-north-east to west-south-west at a height roughly estimated at 300 feet. When it began to curve downwards it disappeared from view, but it left behind it a luminous trail of great brilliancy, which was seen for fully forty seconds, its brilliancy gradually diminishing till it entirely faded away.
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LOWE, W. Meteors. Nature 29, 56 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029056c0
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