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The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be among the most spectacular. Because of the storm of 1833 and the developments in scientific thought of the time (see for example the identification of Halley's Comet), the Leonids have had a major effect on the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.
[5] [6] [7] In the modern era, the first great meteor storm was the Leonids of November 1833. One estimate is a peak rate of over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, [ 8 ] but another, done as the storm abated, estimated more than two hundred thousand meteors during the 9 hours of the storm, [ 9 ] over the entire region of North America east ...
The Cutthroat Gap massacre occurred in 1833, "The Year the Stars Fell" in Oklahoma. [1] A group of Osage warriors charged into a Kiowa camp and brutally slaughtered the women, children and elderly there.
It refers to a spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower that had been observed in Alabama in November 1833, "the night the stars fell." [ 2 ] As reported by the Florence Gazette : "[There were] thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.
November 12 – November 13, 1833 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama. November 25, 1833 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra. October 16, 1834 – The Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire. February 20, 1835 – Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake.
November 12–13 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama. November 24 – Psi Upsilon is founded at Union College, becoming the fifth fraternity in the United States. December American Anti-Slavery Society founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
Lawson observed an occultation of Saturn on 8 May 1832, Johann Gottfried Galle's first comet in December 1839 and January 1840, and recorded the falling stars of 12–13 November 1841. He published in 1844 a paper On the Arrangement of an Observatory for Practical Astronomy and Meteorology , and in 1847 a brief History of the New Planets.
A meteor or shooting star [8] is the visible passage of a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere. At a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake.