1833 年的大流星雨
The Great Meteor Storm of 1833
發表日期：2024-12-10
那是一個擁有 10 萬顆流星的夜晚。 1833 年的大流星雨也許是近代史上最令人印象深刻的流星事件。 11 月 13 日黎明前的幾個小時，流星在北美東部上空最為明顯，許多人（包括年輕的亞伯拉罕-林肯）被驚醒，看到天空中爆發出的條紋和閃光。數十萬顆流星劃過天空，似乎從獅子座傾瀉而出。 這張圖片是木刻版畫的數字化版本，而木刻版畫本身則是根據第一手資料繪製的。我們今天知道， 1833 年的大流星雨是由於地球穿過 Tempel-Tuttle 彗星排出的塵埃軌跡的密集部分造成的。每年 11 月的獅子座流星雨期間，地球都會穿過這股塵埃流。本週晚些時候，您可能會看到一年一度的雙子座流星雨，從而略微感受到 1833 年流星雨的強度。 探索你的宇宙隨機 APOD 生成器
原文：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. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator
※ 本文由萌芽機器人自動轉貼自每日一天文圖（Astronomy Picture of the Day，APOD），原文為英文，正體中文是透過 DeepL 翻譯及 OpenCC 進行自動處理，內容僅供參考，若有任何錯誤之處還請見諒！
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