At Athens, Greece, a large number of bolides was seen by Mr. J.
Herschel, of Collingwood, England, has with much care and industry collected and collated the known facts in regard to bolides and aerolites.
There is, in all probability, a regular gradation from the smallest visible shooting-stars to bolides and aerolites.
Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling-stars.
The phenomenon ceased by degrees after four o'clock, and the bolides and falling-stars became less frequent; but we still distinguished some toward the northeast a quarter of an hour after sunrise.
Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours.
By means of bolidesejected from the lunar volcanoes," replied the Frenchman without an instant's hesitation.
The sight of one of these erratic bolides certainly justified the gravest apprehensions of our travellers regarding the existence of others.
An incessant rain of bolides falling on his surface compensates sufficiently for the heat that he is continually giving forth.
The same cause which checks the diffusion of the solar light, diminishes the extinction of that which emanates either frombolides from Jupiter, or from the moon, seen on the second day after its conjunction.
They did not behold these bolides with indifference; the oldest among them remembered that the great earthquakes of 1766 were preceded by similar phenomena.
Rio Negro; had seen numberless falling-stars and bolides illumine the heavens.
Bonpland states that, from the first appearance of the phenomenon, there was not in the firmament a space equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, which was not filled every instant with bolides and falling stars.
The Guaiqueries in the Indian suburb alleged "that the bolides began to appear at one o'clock; and that as they returned from fishing in the gulf, they had perceived very small falling stars towards the east.
From the position of the mountains and thick forests which surround the Missions of the Cataracts and the little village of Maroa, I presume that the bolides were still visible at 20 degrees above the horizon.
But since the direction of the bolides was not the same at Labrador and at Cumana, why were they not perceived in the latter place towards the north, as at Cayenne?
I was forcibly struck by the immense height which these bolides must have attained, to have rendered them visible simultaneously at Cumana, and on the frontiers of Brazil, in a line of two hundred and thirty leagues in length.
Thousands of bolides and falling stars succeeded each other during the space of four hours.
They differ greatly in this respect from their large and noisy relatives, the meteorites, bolides and fireballs.
Mr. Bonpland relates, that from the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon, that was not filled at every instant with bolides and falling stars.
The phenomenon ceased by degrees after four o'clock, and the bolides and falling stars became less frequent; but we still distinguished some toward the northeast a quarter of an hour after sunrise.
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