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IT will probably be of interest to many besides your two correspondents—whese letters are respectively dated from Sitting-bourne in Kent, and Loughton in Essex—to learn that the remarkable meteor they describe was also observed about the time mentioned by them (9.45) in this neighbourhood.
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TURLE, J. “Fire-ball” Meteor of December 14. Nature 43, 176 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/043176d0
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