The Chant Meteor Procession of 1913 – Towards a Descriptive Model

Martin Beech; Mark Comte

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The Chant Meteor Procession of 1913 – Towards a Descriptive Model

Martin Beech, Mark Comte

Published in American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 5 April 2018 Accepted: 19 May 2018 Published: 28 June 2018

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Abstract

From an observational standpoint the Chant Meteor Procession of 9 February, 1913 is particularly remarkable, being especially noted for its long ground track of at least 15,000 km, and for the slow motion and near parallel to the horizon paths adopted by the meteors. The circumstances surrounding the Procession are re-considered here in terms of the successive entry of multiple meteoroid clusters. These clusters are in turn considered to be derived from a temporarily captured Earth orbiting object that has undergone disaggregation. It is suggested that the general observational accounts of the Procession can be explained through the sequential entry of multiple meteoroid clusters that moved through the Earth’s atmosphere on grazing-incident trajectories. It is further suggested that the parent object to the Procession, prior to its breakup, may have been no more than 3 to 4-m across.

Published in	American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajaa.20180602.11
Page(s)	31-38
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2018. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Natural Earth Satellites, Meteoroid Ablation, Grazing Atmospheric Flight

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Campion College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Department of Physics, The University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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