The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Sunday Times, London, U-K., No. 1470, December 8, 1850.
A brilliant purplish meteor with a yellowish-red tail crossed the firmament from north to south, passing over Aberdeen, north Scotland. About midway in its progress, it shot out hori¬zontally, and nearly at right angle to the line of its wake, a small fiery ball.
