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]

1860 Great Meteor

Oil painting by Frederic Church
Date	July 20, 1860 (1860-07-20)
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]

See also

• 1783 Great Meteor
• 1913 Great Meteor Procession
• 1972 Great Daylight Fireball