Posted on 12/10/2024 1:07:33 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: It was a night of 100,000 meteors. The Great Meteor Storm of 1833 was perhaps the most impressive meteor event in recent history. Best visible over eastern North America during the pre-dawn hours of November 13, many people -- including a young Abraham Lincoln -- were woken up to see the sky erupt in streaks and flashes. Hundreds of thousands of meteors blazed across the sky, seemingly pouring out of the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The featured image is a digitization of a wood engraving which itself was based on a painting from a first-person account. We know today that the Great Meteor Storm of 1833 was caused by the Earth moving through a dense part of the dust trail expelled from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Earth moves through this dust stream every November during the Leonid meteor shower. Later this week you might get a slight taste of the intensity of that 1833 meteor storm by witnessing the annual Geminid meteor shower.
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Interesting.
Just a few years before the invention of photography.
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Frederick Douglass: “My Bondage and My Freedom” 1855, pg. 145
One of the most meaningful accounts of the stars falling from heaven came from Frederick Douglass, who at the time was a 15-year-old slave in Talbot County, Maryland. Here was his reaction:
“I witnessed this gorgeous spectacle, and was awestruck. The air seemed filled with bright descending messengers from the sky. It was about daybreak when I saw this sublime scene. I was not without the suggestion, at that moment, that it might be the harbinger of the coming of the Son of Man; and in my then state of mind I was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer. I had read that the ‘stars shall fall from heaven,’ and they were now falling. I was suffering very much in my mind. . . . I was looking away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.”
Later Douglass would obtain his freedom and become one of the greatest abolitionists and orators in American history. It is believed that he was acquainted with James and Ellen White when they lived in Rochester, New York, in the late 1840s. His oldest child, Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (1839-1906), became a Seventh-day Adventist. Douglass’ account of 1833 is compelling not because of what he was, but because of what he was not. He was not free, not white, and not rich, not an adult, nor was he affiliated with any Christian denomination.
It’s a shame no one thought of getting a video
They were probably so surprised that they forgot to pull out their cell phones.
Comet Tempel-Tuttle
That’s where the expression Ta ta Tuttle comes from.
I’m calling BS on this one. That pictured is photoshopped If ever I have seen one. And a poor job at that.
’ . . I was looking away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.”
That phrase moved me to tears.
I can only imagine how that life must have been for him!
Thank you for posting this MTNClimber,
I’m so happy to be on your PING list
it really makes my day!
Definitely not the Webb or Hubble telescope!!!
It would be really cool to see one like that again.
Thanks, that makes my day too.
If they appeared from the vicinity of Leo they wouldn’t be Taurids, but Leonids. Just saying.
It’s the great asteroid storm you have to watch out for.
And of course if Uranus ever hits us, we’ll just die.
And then, up popped the Triffids!
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