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[[File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|thumb|Painting by Gustav Hahn as observed near High Park in Toronto.]]The 1913 Great Meteor Procession occurred on February 9, 1913. | [[File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|thumb|Painting by Gustav Hahn as observed near High Park in Toronto.]]The '''1913 Great Meteor Procession''' occurred on February 9, 1913. | ||
It was a unique meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles (11,000 km). | It was a unique meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles (11,000 km). | ||
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The 1913 Great Meteor Procession occurred on February 9, 1913.
It was a unique meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles (11,000 km).
The meteors were particularly unusual in that there was no apparent radiant, that is to say, no point in the sky from which the meteors appeared to originate.
The observations were analysed in detail, later the same year, by the astronomer Clarence Chant, leading him to conclude that as all accounts were positioned along a great circle arc, the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
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