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Meteor that breaks apart into fragments travelling in the same direction From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 four occurrences are known:[1]
- 18 August 1783 Great Meteor[1][2] (Passed over Blair Atholl, the east coast of southern Scotland and England and the English Channel, breaking up over southern France or northern Italy).[3]
- 20 July 1860 Great Meteor; sighted over North America, believed by Olson to be the event referred to in Walt Whitman's poem Year of Meteors, 1859–60[4][5]
- 21 December 1876 Great Meteor; sighted over Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania[6][7][8]
- 9 February 1913 Great Meteor Procession; 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

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See also
- 1972 Great Daylight Fireball – Atmospheric phenomenon
- Bolide – Extremely bright meteor
- Comet breakup – Natural object in space that releases gas
- Forensic astronomy – Study of past celestial appearances
- Green fireballs – Unidentified flying objects
- List of Earth-crossing asteroids
- Meteor shower – Celestial event caused by streams of meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere
- Unidentified flying object – Airborne entity that has not been identified or explained
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