The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1872)
White, Charles J. (Charles Joyce), 1839-1917 · Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger · leaf 218
xemplify all.On the 2d of August, 1860, about 10 p.m., a magnificent fire-ball was seen throughout the whole region from Pittsburg toNew Orleans, and from Charleston to St. Louis, an area of 900miles in diameter. Several observers described it as equal insize to the full moon, and just before its… … Fig. 74. AEROLITES. 209 distant cannon. Immediately another noise was heard, notquite so loud, and the sounds were re-echoed with the prolongedroar of thunder. From a comparison of a large number ofobservations, it has been computed that this meteor first becamevisible over Northeastern Georgia,…
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