'The Night the Stars Fell' 190 Years Ago: Beginning of Citizen Science
“The Night the Stars Fell” was the early morning of 1833 November 13 when thousands of “Shooting Stars”, during what we now know as the annual Leonid Meteor Shower, became a Meteor Storm! A Connecticut college professor used the incident to start the first scientific study of Meteors and Meteor Showers and create the first Citizen Science Project.
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Glenn A. Walsh, Informal Science Educator & Communicator,