1860 Great Meteor
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July 20, 1860 (1860-07-20) |
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United States |
The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860. It was a unique 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 cross 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] 150 years later in 2010 it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession.[7]
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