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THE CANADIAN FIREBALL PROCESSION OF 1913 FEBRUARY 9
Author(s) -
LaPaz Lincoln
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1956.tb01375.x
Subject(s) - procession , interpretation (philosophy) , phenomenon , meteor (satellite) , meteoroid , history , meteorology , geography , philosophy , archaeology , astronomy , epistemology , physics , linguistics
This paper calls attention to the unscientific procedures by means of which C. C. Wylie has sought to controvert C. A. Chant's satellitory interpretation of the great Canadian fireball procession of 1913 February 9. Attention is directed to the many long‐buried United States observations of the fireball procession that have recently been brought to light by Alexander D. Mebane's painstaking work. The data secured by Mebane not only definitely discredit Wylie's interpretatation of the Canadian incident as an ordinary meteor shower, but also provide further corroboration of the accuracy of Chant's interpretation of that phenomenon, at least in the somewhat modified form attributed to it by Denning, Davidson, Fisher, and Pickering.