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I SEND an account of a meteor, to me remarkable because of its extremely slow movement and also because of its apparently reaching the surface of the earth, a little east of north-east of here. The “falling star” was about equal in brightness to Sirius. When first it attracted my attention it would be just below the cluster “Coma Berenices.” So slowly was it falling that I first mistook it for the fixed star Arcturus, the resemblance being probably increased by its colour, which was reddish. It slowly dropped vertically downwards, its brilliancy keeping constant; it left no trail. Its line of descent would make a small angle with the line δβ Leonis. I watched it fall right to ground—but it may not have quite reached earth, as there was a rise in the ground before me. About one-third of its distance from the ground it appeared to “wobble,” but that may have been an illusion. It fell so slowly as to take quite five seconds. The time was about 7.22 p.m. on March 15, when I was a little more than a mile to the south of Basing-stoke.
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LIDDLE, J. A Remarkable Meteor. Nature 67, 464 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067464b0
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