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A METEOR equal in brightness to the Pole Star, and of much the same colour, was seen by me to fall from the southern sky at 6.25 on the morning of Friday, February 3. Its path was one of ten degrees, extended along a line midway between α Coronæ Borealis and the planet Jupiter, which at that time was shining lustrously some thirty-four degrees south, and slightly east, of Arcturus. The meteor left a steel-blue train which remained visible for six seconds.
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ELGIE, J. A Morning Meteor. Nature 85, 475 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085475e0
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