Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 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. Explore Your Universe: [25]Random APOD Generator Tomorrow's picture: jets and shells __________________________________________________________________ [26]< | [27]Archive | [28]Submissions | [29]Index | [30]Search | [31]Calendar | [32]RSS | [33]Education | [34]About APOD | [35]Discuss | [36]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [37]Robert Nemiroff ([38]MTU) & [39]Jerry Bonnell ([40]UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn [41]Specific rights apply. [42]NASA Web Privacy, [43]Accessibility, [44]Notices; A service of: [45]ASD at [46]NASA / [47]GSFC, [48]NASA Science Activation & [49]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2412/LeonidsWoodcut_Vollmy_1293.jpg 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/ 8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031116.html 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231217.html 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181209.html 11. https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/09/how-newspapers-helped-crowdsource-a-scientific-discovery-the-1833-leonid-meteor-storm/ 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation) 13. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonids-1833.jpg 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_engraving 15. https://www.space.com/greatest-meteor-storms-in-history 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833 17. https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Leonids 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021116.html 19. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/ 20. https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Leonids 21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids 22. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://preview.redd.it/do-they-realize-we-love-them-and-we-are-their-care-givers-i-v0-z4ly1tlxm7sb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=51ed6bea310b899748bfa9290032b3cadb59b60f 23. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-december-2024-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/ 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211116.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/random_apod.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241209.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 30. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 32. https://apod.com/feed.rss 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 35. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=241210 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241211.html 37. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 38. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 39. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 40. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 41. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 42. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 43. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/ 44. https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/ 45. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 46. https://www.nasa.gov/ 47. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 48. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 49. http://www.mtu.edu/