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1860 Great Meteor
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]
Oil painting by Frederic Church | |
| Date | July 20, 1860 |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
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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Leaves of Grass/Book XVII - Year of Meteors 1859-60
References edit
- ^ "Another Great Meteor". The New York Times. August 7, 1860. from the original on May 2, 2013.
- ^ . Appleton's Journal of Popular Culture. The Heritage of Western North Carolina. January 7, 1871. Archived from the original on September 8, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ "Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Church". Frederic Church. NASA. July 22, 2010. from the original on July 22, 2010.
- ^ "Church, Whitman both recorded an 1860 meteor". Register Star. July 21, 2010.
- ^ "Images of Harper's Weekly front page story". New Scientist. June 1, 2010. from the original on June 5, 2010.
- ^ "150-year-old meteor mystery solved". NBC News. June 2, 2010. from the original on November 8, 2012.
- ^ "Texas State astronomers solve Walt Whitman meteor mystery". Texas State University. May 28, 2010. from the original on October 19, 2011.