Astronomy:1860 Great Meteor
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Short description: Meteor procession seen across the United States
 Oil painting by Frederic Church | |
| Date | July 20, 1860 |
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| Location | United States |
The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860. It was an extremely rare meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across the United States .[1][2]
American landscape painter Frederic Church saw and painted a spectacular string of fireball meteors across the Catskill evening sky, an extremely rare Earth-grazing meteor procession.[3][4] It is believed that this was the event referred to in the poem Year of Meteors, 1859-60, by Walt Whitman.[5][6] In 2010, 150 years later, it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession.[7]
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References
- ↑ "Another Great Meteor". The New York Times. 7 August 1860. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20130502070209/http://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/07/news/another-great-meteor.html.
- ↑ "The Great Meteor of 1860". Appleton's Journal of Popular Culture. The Heritage of Western North Carolina. 7 January 1871. Archived from the original on September 8, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060908041555/http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_natural_disasters/meteor_1860.htm.
- ↑ "Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Church". Frederic Church. NASA. 22 July 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20100722090737/http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100722.html.
- ↑ "Church, Whitman both recorded an 1860 meteor". Register Star. 21 July 2010. http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_ea801ee5-6c5a-57f1-94ed-68fe35ee7fc3.html.
- ↑ "Images of Harper's Weekly front page story". New Scientist. 1 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-06-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20100605075133/http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whitman-mystery-solved/3.
- ↑ "150-year-old meteor mystery solved". NBC News. 2 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20121108194834/http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/02/4448882-150-year-old-meteor-mystery-solved.
- ↑ "Texas State astronomers solve Walt Whitman meteor mystery". Texas State University. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20111019041851/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2010/06/YearOfMeteors060110.html.
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