Early morning, about 2 AM, on Nov. 12, 1799 Andrew Ellicott, who led his crew to survey the southern US border, recorded the hours-long shower of shooting stars, falling stars, shooting meteors or meteor shower off Florida. The "phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets" and he feared some would fall on the ship. The winds reversed direction and the temperature dropped 30 degrees to 56. Humboldt saw the show while researching in South America and with Ellicott's descriptions, past sightings and another in 1833, Humboldt was able to "conjecture that at that particular period the earth was passing through a ring or belt of minute planetary bodies." Upcoming meteor showers HERE
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Sunday, November 12, 2023
Andrew Ellicott - the first to write about a meteor shower in US 11/12/1799
Early morning, about 2 AM, on Nov. 12, 1799 Andrew Ellicott, who led his crew to survey the southern US border, recorded the hours-long shower of shooting stars, falling stars, shooting meteors or meteor shower off Florida. The "phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets" and he feared some would fall on the ship. The winds reversed direction and the temperature dropped 30 degrees to 56. Humboldt saw the show while researching in South America and with Ellicott's descriptions, past sightings and another in 1833, Humboldt was able to "conjecture that at that particular period the earth was passing through a ring or belt of minute planetary bodies." Upcoming meteor showers HERE
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