1860 Great Meteor Explained
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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Notes and References
- News: Another Great Meteor . . 7 August 1860 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130502070209/http://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/07/news/another-great-meteor.html . 2013-05-02 . live .
- Web site: The Great Meteor of 1860 . Appleton's Journal of Popular Culture . The Heritage of Western North Carolina . 7 January 1871 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060908041555/http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_natural_disasters/meteor_1860.htm . September 8, 2006 . dead . February 15, 2013 . mdy-all .
- Web site: Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Church . . . 22 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100722090737/http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100722.html . 2010-07-22 . live .
- Web site: Church, Whitman both recorded an 1860 meteor . Register Star . 21 July 2010 .
- Web site: Images of Harper's Weekly front page story . . 1 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100605075133/http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whitman-mystery-solved/3 . 2010-06-05 . live .
- Web site: 150-year-old meteor mystery solved . . 2 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121108194834/http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/02/4448882-150-year-old-meteor-mystery-solved . 2012-11-08 . live .
- Web site: Texas State astronomers solve Walt Whitman meteor mystery . . 28 May 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111019041851/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2010/06/YearOfMeteors060110.html . 2011-10-19 . live .
