http://www.metafilter.com/tags/forensicastronomy Posts tagged with 'forensicastronomy' at MetaFilter. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:05 -0800 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:05 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/94825/What%2Dam%2DI%2Dmyself%2Dbut%2Done%2Dof%2Dyour%2Dmeteors "<em>A moment, a moment long, it sail’d its balls of unearthly light over our heads, Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone</em>" Walt Whitman wrote these words in the poem <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/142/100.html">Year of Meteors, 1859 ’60</a>. Not until this year did a team of forensic astronomers</a> at Texas State University, with the assistance of <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/06/the-forensic-astronomer-donald-olson.html">a painting</a> from the Hudson River School, <a href="http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2010/06/YearOfMeteors060110.html">figure out what he was really talking about</a>. - <a href="http://www.underthemicroscope.com/q-a/a-conversation-with-ava-pope-physicist">A conversation with Ava Pope</a>, one of the students working on the problem. - a related image of a similar event, the "<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/819730--mystery-of-the-canadian-fireball-procession-of-1913">Canadian Fireball Procession of 1913</a>" helped jog the memory of TSU astronomer Donald Olsen - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Daylight_1972_Fireball#All_known_Earth-grazing_fireballs">All known Earth-grazing fireballs</a> <small>thanks to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/108684">this user</a> for the idea</small> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.94825 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:55:05 -0800 astronomy avapope donaldolsen fireballs forensicastronomy fredericchurch meteorites meteors poem poetry waltwhitman jessamyn