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

1783 Great Meteor

Bolide observed on 18 August 1783

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…