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==Observations==
The event occurred at between 9:15 and 9:30 on August 18, a clear, dry night. Analysis of observations has indicated that the meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere over the [[North Sea]], before passing over the east coast of [[Scotland]] and [[England]] and the [[English Channel]]; it finally broke up, after a passage within the atmosphere of around a thousand miles (1600 km), over south-western [[France]] or northern [[Italy]].<ref name=beech130>Beech, M. "[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989JBAA...99..130B The Great Meteor of 18 August 1783]", ''Journal of the British Astronomical Association'', 1989, v.99, 3, 103</ref>
There were many witnesses. Perhaps the most prominent was [[Tiberius Cavallo]], an Italian [[natural philosopher]] who had happened to be amongst a group of people on the terrace at [[Windsor Castle]] at the time the meteor appeared. Cavallo published his account of the phenomenon in v. 74 of the ''Philosophical Transactions'' :
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