Astronomy:1860 Great Meteor

From HandWiki
Short description: Meteor procession seen across the United States

1860 Great Meteor
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) 'The Meteor,' 1860-61, oil on paper laid to canvas, 10 3/8 x 17 7/8 in. (26.6 x 43.2cm), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Dorothy Clark Archibald and Thomas L. Archibald Fund & The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 2025.3.1
DateJuly 20, 1860 (1860-07-20)
LocationUnited 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] The painting now belongs to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, Frederic Church's birthplace. 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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "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. 
  2. ↑ "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. 
  3. ↑ "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. 
  4. ↑ "Church, Whitman both recorded an 1860 meteor". Register Star. 21 July 2010. http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_ea801ee5-6c5a-57f1-94ed-68fe35ee7fc3.html. 
  5. ↑ "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. 
  6. ↑ "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. 
  7. ↑ "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. 



Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Astronomy:1860_Great_Meteor&oldid=3945493"