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The 1913 Meteor Procession: A Fleet of Fireballs in Single File

On a winter night in nineteen thirteen, dozens of fireballs sailed slowly across the sky in single file, one after another, taking five whole minutes to cross from one horizon to the other. It began over Canada, late in the evening of February the ninth. People looked up and saw not one shooting star, but a long, silent procession of them.

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