| RGO Archives/RGO 59 contains: |
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| <-- See earlier |
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| 73 |
Rodriguez Station Journal |
| 74 |
Atooi Station Journal |
| 75 |
Port Palliser Station Journal |
| 76 |
Determination of mean solar parallax |
| 77 |
Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus |
| 78 |
Account of the Transit of Venus |
| 79 |
Papers of the Burnham expedition |
| 80 |
Drawings of the 1885 Solar Eclipse |
| 81 |
Papers on falling meteors |
| 82 |
Draft forms for the Transit of Venus Expedition |
| 83 |
Photograph of delegates at an ''astronomical conference'' seated on the lawn in front of the Old Schools building, University of Cambridge |
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Papers of George Lyon Tupman
| Title |
Papers on falling meteors |
| Reference |
RGO 59/81 |
| Covering Dates |
1887 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 bundle |
|
| Content and context |
Correspondence and newspaper cuttings regarding a falling meteor of 23 November 1877, including drawings of the flight and subsequent explosion of the meteor that night at approximately 8 hours 24 minutes Greenwich Mean Time. There is also an account of another exploding meteor viewed that evening from Whitney, Oxford, at 7 hours 35 minutes. |
| Further information |
Indexed |
| Index Terms |
| Meteorites |
| No further on-line information. |
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