GREAT BLUE METEOR.
OBSERVED IN DURBAN. DURBAN. A great blue meteor with a long "tail of fire" has been seen in the sky south of Durban. Mr. Colin Miinro. who had a clear view of it while on board an Imperial Airways service launch, stated that it first appeared high in <the sky. It was visible for about five seconds, and then disappeared. Mr. .T. Bennet Mtimford. secretary of the Astronomical Society of South Africa (Natal centre), said that one occasion when a celestial display of meteors is expected i* when the path I of the earth and of a cluster of meteors ] associated with a certain comet partly croas.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 21
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