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1783 Great Meteor
1783Aug, 18

A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

The 1783 Great Meteor was a meteor procession observed on 18 August 1783 from the British Isles, at a time when such phenomena were not well understood. The meteor was the subject of much discussion in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and was the subject of a detailed study by Charles Blagden.

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