The
1913 Great Meteor Procession occurred on February 9, 1913. It was a unique
meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and
Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded
ground track of over 7,000 miles (11,000 km). The meteors were particularly unusual in that there was no apparent
radiant, that is to say, no point in the sky from which the meteors appeared to originate. The observations were analysed in detail, later the same year, by the astronomer
Clarence Chant, leading him to conclude that as all accounts were positioned along a
great circle arc, the source had been a small, short-lived
natural satellite of the Earth.