The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

CORRESPONIYEN.CE.

A BRILLIANT METEOR.

p it, THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
,—ln your paper of yesterday I see a most inte-
resting at:cow/it (copied from the .Arcu, York Herald) of
a brtiarit meteor which was seen about ten o'clock on
the evening of-the 20th of last month, not only at New
York, but-at Philadelphia, New Haven and Newburgh
on the Hudson. It is described as "A blue tinted
luminous globe, the size of a man's bead, that when
nearing the earth it burst, like an immense sky rocket,
into_four portions, and that they flew athwart the sky
from_veit to east, occupying in their flight about a
minute," _The. pasties who witnessed it were under the
-impression it dime within a quarter of a mile of the
earth ; but, when we consider that it was -seen almost
sinniltaneously within a radius of 500 miles, it is evident
they were mistaken. It must evidently have had a
grand appearance,
the account, it puts the great
comet
of pasi'aticn7 foto b
hreshyade.

Now, my object in trespassing upon your space in this
matter is to state that a similar appearance was witnessed
in the heavens in this neighbourhood about the same
time, if not the very evening. I do not for a moment
advance that I and several others saw the identical
meteor, for bur time is four hours earlier than theirs, but
I have no doubt we saw one produced by the same or a
similar came. It was about nine o'clock in the even-
, .
mg when the meteor made its appearance. To our
view it apparently fell from the heavens. When near-
ing the eartfi.it burst, and instead of travelling west to
east it went in the contrary direction. A more bri'-
liant sight of the sort I never witnessed. Some may
say, "Oh ! it was merely a falling star ; "—I have seen
hundreds of what are termed falling stars, but this was
' as superior to one of these as the finest skyrocket or
Roman candle is to a penny squib. I looked in the
papers for several days not doubting that some mention
would be made of fts appearance, but without observing
any; and it is singular that the first public notice—at
least so fir as I am aware—should come from the
States. What have, our astronomers been about ?
surely they must have heard of it if they did not
happen to witness it. I cannot go so far as to say that
it eclipsed the great comet, for it was quite of a dif-
ferent character and almost instantaneous, but out
cousins across the water enjoy a thinner air and can
probably see further. I enclose you my card, with the
names of several gentlemen who had the pleasure of
witnessing this beautiful and rare sight.—l am, yours
truly, OBSERVER.
Moor-lane, Great Crosby, near Liverpool,
7th August, 1860.

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