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THE flight path of the Barwell fireball has been described previously by Miles and Meadows1. I have used much the same observational material, but discarded the reports which are obviously anomalous and also some rather unsatisfactory reports. I find their conclusion of the multiplicity of bolides3 open to doubt, and consider that there is little real evidence for an assumption other than that of a single bolide, which approached Barwell from a point originating approximately 20° W. of S.
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BROWN, P. Notes on the Barwell Meteorite. Nature 212, 1444–1445 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121444a0
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