Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 17 1131-17-p099

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CG, A, Chant is surrounded by an extensive envelope of heated air and smoke which becomes luminous throughout, Probably no single meteor ever yet investigated was a solid mass as large as tea feet in diameter.” : It may be pointed out, however, that these meteors were not. intensely white as most fire-balls are, and so the effect of irradia- tion would not be so pronounced. Taking the diameter, as seen from Toronto, to have been '/,, of the moon’s diameter, or 2’ of arc, this would give a...