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- **March 19:** English botanist Sir Hans Sloane believes he sees a
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shooting star. I suddenly saw a great light in the sky towards the
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West. It shone with a much greater brightness than the
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[Moon](Lune.html). He quickly realized his mistake, the object
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progressing much too slowly and in a straight line. The object had
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a singular shape: A kind of long luminous thread was attached in
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the middle of this [meteor](Meteore.html) which resembled a pear
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tapered upwards. The lower part was spherical, but smaller than
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the full moon. It was white and blue in color, and its brilliance
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as dazzling as that of the sun in full daylight (\...). It moved
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for about thirty seconds and disappeared about 20° above the
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horizon; behind it, it left a kind of faintly orange trail, a bit
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like a glowing coal. It seemed to sparkle, but it did not fall. I
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heard it was also observed in Oxford and Worcester?
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