Celestial / Fire in the sky

86BC

Event #1308: Fireball like "burning shield scattering sparks", observed in Rome

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Citations:

Text #1679

Pliny. Natural History. Series: Natural History. Vol. 1
[Plin. Nat. 2.34. Translated by H. Rackham. Harvard University Press. 1938. (10 Vols.) p. 243]

In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Gaius Marius a burning shield scattering sparks ran across the sky at sunset from west to east. (86 BC)

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