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A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.
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Meteor procession
Meteor that breaks apart into fragments travelling in the same direction
A meteor procession occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. According to physicist Donald Olson, only four occurrences are known:18 August 1783 Great Meteor 20 July 1860 Great Meteor; believed by Olson to be the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1783 Great Meteor
Bolide observed on 18 August 1783
The 1783 Great Meteor was a meteor procession observed on 18 August 1783 from the British Isles, at a time when such phenomena were not well understood. The meteor was the subject of much discussion in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and was the subject of a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)