[meteorite-list] Year of Meteors [1859-60]; "The Portent (1859)" PT2

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <488362.35949.qm_at_web53207.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

List,
Here is what I found for FALLS in the metbull search for 1859-60 in the USA. I may have missed some since am very tired.

Harrison County Official Y 1859 Indiana, USA L6 680 g

Bethlehem Official Y 1859 New York, USA H 13.9 g

New Concord Official Y 1860 Ohio, USA L6 230 kg

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
www.meteoritesjapan.com
www.insekijapan.com


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Ken
> Igarashi"
> <drtanuki at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:09 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Year of Meteors [1859-60];
> "The Portent (1859)"
>
>
> > Dear List,
> > I happened upon Whitman`s poem, Year of Meteors
> [1859-60],
> > tonight.
> >
> > ..."Nor the comet that came unannounced out of
> the north flaring in
> > heaven,
> > Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and
> clear shooting
> > over our heads,
> > (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;)
> > Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from
> them would
> > gleam and patch these chants,
> > Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and
> good--year of forebodings!
> > Year of comets and meteors transient and strange--lo!
> even here one
> > equally transient and strange!
> > As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be
> gone, what is this
> > chant,
> > What am I myself but one of your meteors?" [FULL
> TEXT BELOW]
> >
> > Does anyone know of which meteor (large bolide) he is
> speaking of.
> > Also a reference that in 1859 December, Herman
> Melville wrote "The
> > Portent (1859)?
> > "But the streaming beard is shown
> > (Weird John Brown),
> > The meteor of the war."
> >
> > The comet was most likely Comet 1859(1)- Comet
> Temple1.
> >
> http://deepimpact.umd.edu/science/tempel1-discoverer.html
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Dirk Ross...Tokyo
> > www.meteoritesjapan.com
> >
> > Year of Meteors [1859-60]
> > by Walt Whitman
> > (1819-1892)
> > [FULL TEXT]
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Year of meteors! brooding year!
> > I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds
> and signs,
> > I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
> > I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair,
> mounted the
> > scaffold in Virginia,
> > (I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close,
> I watch'd,
> > I stood very near you old man when cool and
> indifferent, but trembling
> > with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the
> scaffold;)
> > I would sing in my copious song your census returns of
> the States,
> > The tables of population and products, I would sing of
> your ships
> > and their cargoes,
> > The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some
> fill'd with
> > immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of
> gold,
> > Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward
> comes would welcome
> > give,
> > And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you
> from me, young
> > prince of England!
> > (Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you
> pass'd with your
> > cortege of nobles?
> > There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with
> attachment;)
> > Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she
> swam up my bay,
> > Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my
> bay, she was
> > 600 feet long,
> > Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small
> craft I forget not
> > to sing;
> > Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north
> flaring in heaven,
> > Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and
> clear shooting
> > over our heads,
> > (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;)
> > Of such, and fitful as they, I sing--with gleams from
> them would
> > gleam and patch these chants,
> > Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and
> good--year of forebodings!
> > Year of comets and meteors transient and strange--lo!
> even here one
> > equally transient and strange!
> > As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be
> gone, what is this
> > chant,
> > What am I myself but one of your meteors?
> >
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