Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
...clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs saw it for three times as long. The few groundlings who saw the meteor itself called its color blue-white...
...Transcontinental & Western Air mail plane traveling East. Flyer Coyle, 37, quiet, learned accurate observation under stress during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west of Amarillo...
...normal luminosity. Many ideas for this variation in brilliance have been set forth by astronomers all over the country, but few of them seem to give any valid reason for it. Whipple stated that one of the more feasible is that there may be a great cloud of meteor dust, not unlike that which surrounds Saturn, through which the comet is at present passing; and it is the gases that are emitted by this cloud which unite with the comet and produce a reflection of unusual brillianey, a light which is made brighter by the presence of the sun. Another...
...Leonid meteor spectra, which the Observatory has obtained, are the first spectra of this kind ever to have been photographed. With the new photographs, the staff of the Observatory hopes to be able to study the conditions under which Leonid meteoric radiation is produced...