[meteorite-list] Year of Meteors (1859-60)

[drtanuki]

Bernd, Sean and List,
  Thank you Bernd and Sean for your observations and information.  Best, Dirk Ross...Tokyo


--- On Thu, 9/25/08, bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:

> From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Year of Meteorrs (1859-60)
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7:15 AM
> Dirk wrote:
> 
> "The comet was most likely Comet 1859(1) - Comet
> Temple1."
> 
> Sean wrote:
> 
> "Is it possible that they were not actually speaking
> of a meteor/
>  meteorite, but referencing the Wilhelm Tempel 1859
> comet?"
> 
> 
> Hello Dirk, Sean, and List,
> 
> Not quite sure whether Comet 1859 and Comet Tempel 1 are
> identical.
> Wilhelm Tempel discovered Tempel 1 on the night of April 3,
> 1867 and
> as the comet's period is about six years, its previous
> apparition must have
> been 1861, not 1859. He did discover a comet in 1859, the
> only one that
> year. So, like Sean, I think that Walt Whitman may have
> thought of Comet
> 1859 but somehow intermingled the spectacular Leonid meteor
> shower
> (whose parent comet is 55P/ *T e m p e l* -Tuttle) and
> Comet 1859.
> 
> I don't even think that Walt was thinking of Comet 1859
> because it was
> quite unspectacular. What about Comet Donati or Biela or
> even Halley?
> 
> A case of "poetic license" ? ... Maybe
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bernd
> 
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