Meteor procession

Frederic Edwin Church, The Meteor of 1860

A meteor procession is the term used to describe when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. (see also List of Earth-crossing minor planets) According to physicist Donald Olson, only a few occurrences are known, including:^[1]

• Great Meteor of August 18, 1783^[1][2]
• Meteor Procession of July 20, 1860; Donald Olson believes this was the event referred to in the poem Year of Meteors, 1859-60, by Walt Whitman^[3][4]
• Meteor Procession of February 9, 1913, a chain of slow, large meteors moving from northwest to southeast, is sighted over North America, particularly in Canada.

See also

• Bolide
• Comet breakup
• Earth-grazing fireball
• Green fireballs
• meteor shower
• The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball
• List of Earth-crossing minor planets
• Forensic astronomy
• Unidentified flying objects

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Falk, Dan. Forensic astronomer solves Walt Whitman mystery, NewScientist, June 1, 2010
2. ^ Notes and Queries, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 8, p.221-2
3. ^ Images of Harper's Weekly front page story
4. ^ 150-year-old meteor mystery solved

External links

• Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites

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