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                              2024 December 10
   [2]A black and white drawing shows many meteors crossing the sky above
       a small town with many people outside watching. Please see the
                 explanation for more detailed information.

                       The Great Meteor Storm of 1833
    Image Credit: Engraving: [3]Adolf Vollmy; Original Art: Karl Jauslin

   Explanation: It was a night of 100,000 meteors. The [4]Great Meteor
   Storm of 1833 was perhaps the most [5]impressive meteor event in recent
   history. Best visible over eastern [6]North America during the pre-dawn
   hours of November 13, many people -- including a young [7]Abraham
   Lincoln -- were woken up to see the [8]sky erupt in [9]streaks and
   [10]flashes. Hundreds of thousands of [11]meteors blazed across the
   sky, seemingly pouring out of the constellation of the Lion ([12]Leo).
   The [13]featured image is a digitization of a [14]wood engraving which
   itself was based on a painting from a first-person account. We know
   today that the [15]Great Meteor Storm of [16]1833 was caused by the
   Earth moving through a dense part of the [17]dust trail expelled from
   [18]Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The [19]Earth moves through [20]this dust
   stream every November during the [21]Leonid meteor shower. Later this
   week you might get a slight taste of the [22]intensity of that 1833
   meteor storm by [23]witnessing the annual [24]Geminid meteor shower.

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   3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonids-1833.jpg
   4. https://www.pigeonroost.net/the-great-meteor-storm-of-1833/
   5. https://earthsky.org/todays-image/leonid-meteor-shower-1833/
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
   7. https://davidjkent-writer.com/2022/11/13/lincoln-and-the-leonid-meteor-shower/
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