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AN exceedingly beautiful meteor, one of the finest I have seen, was observed from this vessel, while at sea, on the night of July 31. The time of observation was 10h. om. ship's apparent time, or 13h. om. G.M.T., the position of the ship at the time of observation being latitude 43.34° N., longitude 43.37 W. The duration of the flight was between fifteen and twenty seconds, and the meteor was much more brilliant than Venus. It pursued an almost horizontal course, about 8° above the horizon, passing below the constellations Ursa Major, Perseus, and Aries, in all traversing an arc of about 135°.
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CORTIE, A. Brilliant Meteor of July 31. Nature 84, 204 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084204b0
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