Look for the Leonids

SkyCaramba

English - November 05, 2023 05:00 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MB
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The first known crowdsourced scientific study began one morning 190 years ago when it looked like the stars were falling from the sky. Nobody knew yet just what meteors are. A professor's letter asking people to tell him what they saw set scientists on the path to figuring it out.