SLOW MOVING !
200 MILES PER SECOND.
HAWKE'S BAY OBSERVATION. NAPIER, tills clay. The whole district surrounding Napier and Hastings was momentarily lit lust night by a flare from what is commonly taken to be a, meteor, either unusually large or unusually close to the earth. Two minutes after the • flare many people heard the distant rumble of minor explosions. t People who saw the meteor at about 7.30 o'clock declared it travelled across the sky, then appeared to disintegrate in a fashion similar to the bursting of a biw skyrocket, with streaks of light radiating apparently slowly from the bright nucleus. A Hastings student of astronomy, Mr. L. 11. Stevenson, who saw it, described it as an rtnusually large and slow-moving meteor. Its height, Im thought, would be between 30 and TO miles, and its speed about 200 miles per second.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 6
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