Posted by Jayme Blaschke University News Service January 23,
2013 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. Now, on the 100th
anniversary of the historic event, astronomers Don Olson of
Texas State University and Steve Hutcheon of the Astronomical
Association of Queensland, Australia, have answered a long-
forgotten call for more information from the pages of the
science journal Nature, establishing a far greater range for the
great fireball procession than previously known. Olson and
Hutcheon publish their findings in the February 2013 issue of
Sky & Telescope magazine, on newsstands now. A meteor procession
occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks up upon entering the
atmosphere, creating multiple met