[meteorite-list] NPA 10-03-1816 Glasgow Meteor Report

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Times
City: London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Date: October 3, 1816
Page: 4 (of 4)

METEOR.

     On Tuesday evening, a very brilliant meteor was visible here for 
several hours. Soon after sun-set the horizon towards the north became very 
luminous, seemingly with electric light, or Aurora Borealis. About seven 
o'clock, a band of light seemed to detach itself from the mass, and very 
soon formed a nearly semicircular arch, or band, of brilliant white light, 
about three or four degrees broad, well defined, apparently tapering near 
its extremities to points in the horizon, on one side nearly E.N.E., and the 
other W.S.W., or perhaps nearly S.W. It rose on the east side a few degrees 
east of the Pleiades in Taurus, and, passing though Andromeda, nearly filled 
the space between the stars Epsilon and Zeta in the Swan, and entering the 
Milky Way at a very acute angle, coincided with it for a great number of 
degrees. Between the constellations Aquila and Lyra it passed so as to be 
nearly equidistant from the bright stars Atair and Lyra, whence, continuing 
very much in coincidence with the Milky Way, it descended to the horizon on 
the west side. it continued nearly stationary, and of almost equal 
brightness, till near ten o'clock, when it began gradually to disappear. Its 
appearance during the whole time it was visible was very much the same that 
would have been produced by a cylinder of electric light at a great height 
in the atmosphere, stretching along a line of great and indefinite extent 
from the E.N.E. to the S.W., having its axis in a straight line, and being 
throughout of equal diameter - Glasgow Courier.

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