1860 Great Meteor

Meteor procession seen across the United States July 2016 July 2016 Frederic Church Meteor of 1860.jpg 300px Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) 'The Meteor,' 1860-61, oil on paper laid to canvas, 10 3/8 x 17 7/8 in. (26.6 x 43.2cm), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Dorothy Clark Archibald and Thomas L. Archibald Fund & The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 2025.3.1 1860 07 20 United States The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860. It was an extremely rare meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across the United States.https://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/07/news/another-great-meteor.html Another Great Meteor The New York Times 7 August 1860 https://web.archive.org/web/20130502070209/http://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/07/news/another-great-meteor.html 2013-05-02 live http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_natural_disasters/meteor_1860.htm The Great Meteor of 1860 Appleton's Journal of Popular Culture The Heritage of Western North Carolina 7 January 1871 https://web.archive.org/web/20060908041555/http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_natural_disasters/meteor_1860.htm September 8, 2006 dead February 15, 2013 mdy-all 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.http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100722.html Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Church Frederic Church NASA 22 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100722090737/http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100722.html 2010-07-22 live http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_ea801ee5-6c5a-57f1-94ed-68fe35ee7fc3.html Church, Whitman both recorded an 1860 meteor Register Star 21 July 2010 The painting now belongs to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, Frederic Church's birthplace. It is believed that this was the event referred to in the poem Year of Meteors, 1859-60, by Walt Whitman.Olson Donald W. Walt Whitman's 'Year of Meteors' https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/walt-whitmans-meteor-procession/ Sky and Telescope July 2010https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whitman-mystery-solved/3 Images of Harper's Weekly front page story New Scientist 1 June 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100605075133/http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/whitman-mystery-solved/3 2010-06-05 live http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/02/4448882-150-year-old-meteor-mystery-solved 150-year-old meteor mystery solved NBC News 2 June 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20121108194834/http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/02/4448882-150-year-old-meteor-mystery-solved 2012-11-08 live http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2010/06/YearOfMeteors060110.html Texas State astronomers solve Walt Whitman meteor mystery Texas State University 28 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20111019041851/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2010/06/YearOfMeteors060110.html 2011-10-19 live Zielinski Sarah Rare Meteor Event Inspired Walt Whitman https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-meteor-event-inspired-walt-whitman-29643165/ Smithsonian Magazine 7 June 2010 en Both Whitman and Herman Melville analogized the 1860 procession to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and described it as a portent of coming war. Henry David Thoreau also compared John Brown's journey south to the transit of a meteor.Ljungquist Kent "Meteor of the War": Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman Respond to John Brown American Literature 1989 61 4 674–680 10.2307/2927002 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2927002 Duke University Press 0002-9831 subscription See also Leaves of Grass (1882)/Birds of Passage/Year of Meteors (1858-60) "Year of Meteors 1859-60" 1783 Great Meteor 1913 Great Meteor Procession 1972 Great Daylight Fireball References Category:Meteoroids Great Meteor Great Meteor 18600720 Category:Modern Earth impact events Category:Earth-grazing fireballs Great Meteor Category:19th-century astronomical events