Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-09-03 | Page 8 | Mars Thought to be Meteor

MARS THOUGHT TO BE METEOR Fast Moving Clouds Cause an Optical Illusion and Much Excitement Mars rau no little excitement nt In Salt tIt Lake la by acting like a meteor during the thc early evening Jr und and many man a citizen went to his believing believing ing log he had seen seena a areal real wanderer anderer which had been overlooked bl the astronomers mere mers If was only an optical illusion though for tor according to Dr Fred J Pack of the University of Utah the tail taU of the meteor which some seine were sure they had seen s plainly existed existe only in inthe inthe Inthe the Imagination Mars ars has been hovering around aroun the tb shadow of the moon or or the th moon has lias been hovering hovern around the tl path of light between Mars and the earth erth and It ItI may I be Ie that this has ha something to do d with wih the apparent intensity of the nat natural nt natural ural url red cloi of the te t planet which is 18 supposed to be b covered with wih an date irrigating system The apparent rand movement of the meteor meter was an illusion due to tie Ifie e fast moving clouds clouds according to Dr Pack