Biela's Comet
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Biela's Comet or Comet Biela was a Jupiter-family comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It was subsequently observed to
A sketch of Biela's Comet in February 1846, soon after it split into two pieces
The two components of Biela in 1852, as drawn by Secchi.
The Andromedid or Bielid meteors as seen on the night of 27 November 1872.
Biela's Comet was the subject of several panics over close approaches to Earth. An 1877 newspaper illustration from Chile, captioned "inevitable impact of the Earth with Comet Biela"
Peshtigo fire
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The Peshtigo Fire was a wildfire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Mi
Biela's Comet
…theory links together several major fires that occurred simultaneously in America, including the Great Chicago Fire, the Great Michigan Fire, and the Peshtigo Fire, claiming that they were caused by fragments of Biela's Comet striking the Earth, in October 1871. The theory was first proposed by Ignatius L. Donnelly…
Two pieces of lumber that survived the fire
Making for the river
Peshtigo Fire Museum