Meteor procession

Oil painting by Frederic Church, The Meteor of 1860

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 a few occurrences are known, including:^[1]

Great Meteor of August 18, 1783^[1]^[2]
Meteor procession of July 20, 1860; believed by Donald Olson to be the event referred to in Walt Whitman's poem Year of Meteors, 1859-60.^[3]^[4]
Meteor procession of December 21, 1876; sighted over Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania.^[5]
Meteor procession of February 9, 1913; 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.

References

1 2 Falk, Dan. Forensic astronomer solves Walt Whitman mystery, NewScientist, June 1, 2010
↑ Notes and Queries, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 8, p.221-2
↑ Images of Harper's Weekly front page story
↑ 150-year-old meteor mystery solved
↑ Report of the annual meeting British Association for the Advancement of Science 1877 pages 149-153.

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On Earth

Pre-2000	1490 Ch'ing-yang 1783 Great Meteor 1860 Great Meteor 1908 Tunguska 1913 Great Meteor Procession 1930 Curuçá River 1938 Chicora meteor 1947 Sikhote-Alin meteorite 1969 Murchison meteorite 1972 Great Daylight Fireball 1990 Earth-grazing meteoroid

Post-2000	2002 Eastern Mediterranean 2002 Vitim 2007 Carancas 2008 TC3 impact 2009 Sulawesi superbolide 2012 Sutter's Mill meteorite 2012 UK meteoroid 2012 Novato meteorite 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor Chelyabinsk meteorite 2014 AA impact 2014 Ontario fireball 2015 Kerala meteorite 2015 Thailand bolide WT1190F impact

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Planetary defense

Main topics	Asteroid Bolide Earth-grazing fireball Impact event List of meteor air bursts Meteor procession Meteor shower Meteorite Meteoroid Near-Earth object Potentially hazardous object

Defense	Asteroid impact avoidance Asteroid close approaches Earth-crossing minor planets Gravity tractor Ion Beam Shepherd Damage scales Palermo scale Torino scale

Space probes	AIDA Asteroid Redirect Mission Dawn Deep Impact Halley Armada Hayabusa Hayabusa 2 PROCYON NEAR Shoemaker New Horizons OSIRIS-REx Rosetta Philae Stardust

NEO tracking	ATLAS Catalina Sky Survey LINEAR LONEOS NEAT NEOSSat NEOCam NEODyS OGS Telescope Orbit@home Pan-STARRS SCAP Sentinel Space Telescope Sentry Spacewatch WISE

Organizations	B612 Foundation Japan Spaceguard Association Meteoritical Society NEOShield Spaceguard The Spaceguard Foundation Space Situational Awareness Programme Planetary Defense Coordination Office

Potential threats	1950 DA 1994 WR₁₂ 101955 Bennu 2002 MN (410777) 2009 FD 2010 RF₁₂ 99942 Apophis

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