Mystery AtlasMeteor Shower Radiant Explanation
Physicist Charles Wylie's 1913 counter-argument that the procession was an ordinary meteor shower with a shared radiant point, like an annual shower such as the Perseids, rather than a single body breaking up in Earth orbit; astronomer Lincoln LaPaz found Wylie's radiant calculation methodologically unsound, and the explanation never displaced Chant's reading.
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Meteor Shower Radiant Explanation contradicts Earth-Grazing Meteoroid Breakup Theory — The two accounts make mutually exclusive claims about whether the fireballs shared a common radiant point.
Events
- 1913 Great Meteor Procession9 February 1913
Meteor Shower Radiant Explanation attempts to explain 1913 Great Meteor Procession — A minority 1913 counter-proposal whose radiant analysis was found methodologically unsound and which never displaced the satellite-capture/breakup reading.