Astronomy:Meteor procession

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Oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church, The 1860 Great Meteor

A meteor procession occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. According to physicist Donald Olson, only four occurrences are known:[1]

  • 18 August 1783 Great Meteor[1][2]
  • 20 July 1860 Great Meteor; believed by Olson to be the event referred to in Walt Whitman's poem Year of Meteors, 1859–60[3][4]
  • 21 December 1876 Great Meteor; sighted over Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania[5]
  • 9 February 1913 Great Meteor Procession; a chain of slow, large meteors moving from northwest to southeast, sighted over North America, particularly in Canada, the North Atlantic and the Tropical South Atlantic

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Falk, Dan (1 June 2010). "Forensic astronomer solves Walt Whitman mystery: CultureLab (blog)". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/06/the-forensic-astronomer-donald-olson.php. Retrieved 8 February 2023. 
  2. ↑ "Notes and Queries". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 8: 221–222. June 1914. Bibcode: 1914JRASC...8..221.. https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1914JRASC...8..221.. Retrieved 8 February 2023. 
  3. ↑ "Forensic astronomer solves Walt Whitman mystery". New Scientist. 1 June 2010. https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whitman-mystery-solved/. Retrieved 8 February 2023. 
  4. ↑ "150-year-old meteor mystery solved". MSNBC. 2 June 2010. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/02/4448882-150-year-old-meteor-mystery-solved. 
  5. ↑ Herschel, Alexander Stewart (1878). "Observations of luminous meteors". Report of the forty-seventh meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Held at Plymouth in August 1877. John Murray. pp. 149–153. https://archive.org/stream/reportannualmee05sciegoog#page/n256/mode/2up. 

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