Meteor

Abstract

As meteors are rarely seen by day, I write to inform you that I observed one this morning, at exactly 10.20 A.M., not only in broad daylight, but in bright sunshine. I only caught a hasty glance of it as it was disappearing. It was in the eastern side of the sky, descending towards a point in the horizon nearly due north from us, at an angle of about 40°. As we are quite in the country, it could not have been anything else than a meteor. I found that two of our servants had seen it also, and described it as having a tail, which I did not see.