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I HAVE this evening, at 7.40, seen the brightest meteor I have ever beheld: Stirling from a point about half-way between Cassiopæa and the Pole star, it descended through about 20° of arc, when it was lost sight of behind a cloud: this cloud was a thick white opaque cloud shining brightly in the moonlight, but the meteor behind it illuminated the sky, and made the cloud appear for the moment dark against it.
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VERNEY, E. Bright Meteor. Nature 7, 443 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007443b0
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