METEOR AT TRENTHAM.
' SEEN »Y mifXEMEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A luminous Aery ball, believed to be a meteor, woe observed by riflemen at the Trentham range on Monday morning travelling at great speed through the air at what appeared to be few hundred feet above the ground. Mr. S. F. McLean, president of the Wellington Rifle Association, who was an eye-witness, said the meteor, in spite of brilliant sunshine, waa clearly visible. He did not actually eea the meteor strike the ground. „'/»,, *;'• ' An officer of the Dominion Observatory to whom the eye-witnesses' report was referred, said there were two kinds of fireballs commonly referred to by astronomers—those that were really brilliant meteors and others which form electrical phenomena. The occurrence reported was more likely to be a meteor.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 20, 25 January 1939, Page 14
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