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A Possibly Meteoritic Dust‐Cloud
Author(s) -
Paz Lincoln
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
contributions of the meteoritical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2805
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1950.tb00130.x
Subject(s) - meteorology , geology , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , geography
A bstract This note contains a quoted account of an extraordinary observation made by Captain W. L. Stewart of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, on 1948 February 7, at 11 h 45 m U.T., while he was flying west‐bound at an elevation of 10,000 feet, over a point whose equatorial coördinate number (ECN) = +0209,550, of what was apparently a downwardly concave, cylindrical dust‐cloud with a length of nearly 60 miles, which may have been meteoritic in origin.