BRILLIANT METEOR
PHENOMENON AT THAMES SPECTACLE IN CLEAR SKY [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Wednesday A report of a large and brilliant meteor seen in tlie nortli-eastern sky at about nine o'clock last Friday night has been received from Mr. C. B. Doidge, of Thames. The moon was full at the time and the sky clear, the moon being about 20 to 30 diameters above the outline of the hills.. The meteor travelled at right-angles to the moon's path,'from east to north, and between the moon and the hills. Its path was almost horizontal, without the pronounced curve that is usually seen. "The bright head of the meteor was much larger than any star in .. the heavens," states Mr. Doidge, "and appeared to me to be bullet-nosed ,in shape. In fact, the impression left was that I had seen a largo-flaming, bullefe pass through .the sky,"-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22941, 20 January 1938, Page 10
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