Talk:1913 Great Meteor Procession

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Did you know... that on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?

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Hi, great article! ;-) According to this (based on a Nassau Guardian newspaper article), there is an account of this event in OCLC 0140044833 (Celestial passengers : UFO's and space travel] by Margaret Sachs, with Ernest Jahn) Probably not worth an interlibrary loan. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 22:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Judging by the book's title, it may be the case that they are talking about the event as represented by Charles Hoy Fort in his book New Lands (end of ch. 23). Fort often takes interesting historic astronomical data and places an, er, unusual interpretation on it: "If one will think that they were meteors, at least one will have to think that no such meteors had ever been seen before".Svejk74 (talk) 07:28, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Davidson, M, (November?) 1913 "British Astronomical Journal" (probably Journal of the British Astronomical Association, which I don't have access to); possibly volume 24 pp. 101-8
1939 article by Wylie, mentioned in the article

John Vandenberg ^(chat) 23:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

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