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10/24/2024

On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy. ☄️

The event described was caused by the Leonid meteor shower, which occurs when Earth passes through the debris left by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. This particular meteor storm on November 12, 1833, was one of the most spectacular ever recorded, with rates estimated at up to 100,000 meteors per hour.

Comet Tempel-Tuttle orbits the sun approximately every 33 years, and when Earth passes through the dense trail of dust and debris left by the comet, it creates the Leonid meteor shower. While the Leonids occur annually around mid-November, they vary greatly in intensity. The 1833 event was an especially intense meteor storm because Earth encountered a particularly dense part of the debris stream.

This event was significant in the study of meteors, as it helped scientists understand that meteors are tied to comets and occur when Earth intersects a comet's debris trail.