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In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. It was unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent.This famous engraving of the Leonid meteor shower in 1833 was based on first-hand accounts of people seeing over 50,000 meteors fall per hour. The first recorded 'meteor storm' in modern history ☄️Don't forget to follow: https://linktr.ee/ScienceAcumen