Meteor procession of 20 July 1860. Weekly newspaper page with a report and illustrations of meteors that formed part of the meteor procession of 20 July 1860,seen across the north-eastern USA. A meteor procession is a series of meteors that occurs when a larger,Earth-grazing meteor,breaks apart to form fragments that pass across the sky. The observers and locations in the state of New York,USA,are named below each artwork. The locations are: Saratoga Springs (centre left),Brooklyn (centre right),and Bedford,Long Island (bottom). This page is from the 4 August 1860 edition of 'Harper's Weekly',published in New York,USA |