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ON Sunday evening, May 8, at 8h. 22m., hundreds of people witnessed the flight of the brilliant slow-moving fireball, about which three letters were printed in NATURE last week. At the time of its appearance daylight was still so strong that only Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and a few first-magnitude stars were visible in the firmament. At stations in the eastern part of England the fireball fell in the western sky; at Bristol and the west it descended in the east; while at Stafford it is described as falling in the south.
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DENNING, W. The Meteor of May 8. Nature 36, 68–69 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036068a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036068a0