Celestial sleuths track historic meteor procession to South Atlantic
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 06:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—A century ago, one of the most spectacular astronomical sights ever recorded lit up the skies when a grand procession of meteors blazed their way through the Earth's atmosphere. The event made headlines from Toronto to Pennsylvania and New York, and in the days that followed eyewitness reports poured in from as far away as Western Canada and Bermuda.