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24 Interplanetary Visitors And that, essentially, is how the Canadian Fireball Procession be- haved. During the 5-hour lapse between the first and second sections, as Mebane realized to his consternation, our Earth would have tumed away from his “meteors” 75°—in terms of terrestrial geography, some 5,000 miles; offering the space-objects a view, no longer of the Great Lakes but of the Pacific Ocean. Yet all three sections of the Procession threaded the needle. By dupli- cating the Chant Trace,...