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Meteor showers

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Old Berrien Newsletter, Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2025): “The Night the Stars Fell”, Spring 2025

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Collection number: ca-012-002-016
Scope and Contents This issue provides an in-depth historical account of the Leonid meteor storm of November 13, 1833, a spectacular astronomical event witnessed across the Deep South, including the area that would later become Berrien County, Georgia. Drawing on scientific studies, regional historical accounts, and 19th-century eyewitness descriptions, the newsletter discusses the nature of meteor showers and explains how Earth’s orbit intersected with debris from the Tempel-Tuttle comet, producing thousands...
Dates: Spring 2025