BRILLIANT METEOR
BALL OF FIRE ACROSS THE SK? TURNED NIGHT INTO DAY, Though 5.30 a.m. could hardly be termed 'night,' it is very dark at that time —being an hour before the dawn—and the Hash of a brilliant meteor across the sky looks just as impressivej then as at 1 a.m. At any rate it did on Wednesday morning, when a luminous body, described as being 'about half the diameter of the moon and twice as long,' disappeared into the east' ern sky. Mr Andrew McLean, of Edgecumbe, who was bailing up his cows at the time, said that he saw the meteor travelling on a west to east line. It brightened the sky to such an extent, Mr McLean added, that it would have been possible to read a newspaper in the light created. This observer further stated that he saw two fragments detach themselves and drop to the earth.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 200, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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151BRILLIANT METEOR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 200, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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