Showing posts with label 1860. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1860. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2013
UFO Fireball Rises From Lake; Divides into 6 Smaller Balls of Light | UFO CHRONICLE - 1860
On Monday night last, a singular phenomenon was seen by W. Studdert, Esq., and by several servants in his employment, at Carumore. A large ball of fire was seen to rise from "Tom Steel's Lake," which subsequently became divided into six smaller balls of light, and remained divided for more then a half an hour, wafted about the field as if impelled by a whirlwind. Ultimately, the particles of light reunited, and remained in view for more then twenty minutes. . . .
* Special Thanks To Kay Massingill & The Magonia Exchange Project
Friday, June 04, 2010
Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery
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By Jayme Blaschke
Physorg.com
6-3-10
In his landmark collection Leaves of Grass, famed poet Walt Whitman wrote of a "strange huge meteor-procession" in such vivid detail that scholars have debated the possible inspiration for decades.Physorg.com
6-3-10
Now, a team of astronomers from Texas State University-San Marcos has applied its unique brand of forensic astronomy to the question, rediscovering one of the most famous celestial events of Whitman's day--one that inspired both Whitman and famed landscape painter Frederic Church--yet became inexplicably forgotten by modern times.
Texas State physics professors Donald Olson and Russell Doescher, English professor Marilynn S. Olson and Honors Program student Ava G. Pope publish their findings in the July 2010 edition of Sky & Telescope magazine, on newsstands now.
"This is the 150th anniversary of the event that inspired both Whitman and Church," Donald Olson said. "It was an Earth-grazing meteor procession."
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