The Night the Stars Fell Down

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In the early morning of November 13, 1833, one of the greatest astronomical spectacles in recorded history took place. It was seen by millions of people, and no one was sure what was happening. Some thought it was the end of the world or judgment day. Both common people and scientists recorded the event, and it turned out that the explanation for what happened was just an extraordinary occurrence of a very ordinary event. Learn more about the Night the Stars Fell Down on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the early morning of November 13th, 1833, one of the greatest astronomical spectacles in recorded history took place.
0:07.0	It was seen by millions of people, and no one was sure exactly what was happening.
0:11.5	Some thought it was the end of the world or
0:13.3	judgment day. Both common people and scientists recorded the event and it turned
0:17.9	out that the explanation for what happened was just an extraordinary occurrence
0:22.1	of a very ordinary event.
0:24.0	Learn more about the night the stars fell down
0:27.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. If you ever spent an evening looking up at the night sky, there's a good
0:47.5	chance you might have seen a shooting star. Shooting stars are very brief. They may only last a second or two, but they light up the sky.
0:55.0	And they're infrequent enough that in some cultures when you see one, you're told to make a wish.
1:00.0	If you're very fortunate, you might be able to witness several of them per minute.
1:05.0	Those of you who have seen a shooting star firsthand will probably have a greater appreciation for the events I'm about to describe in this episode.
1:12.0	And for those of you who haven't seen one, I can only
1:14.8	recommend going out some evening when the sky is dark and seeing one for yourself. The event I'm going to
1:20.5	be describing in this episode is fundamentally the same as when you see a shooting star.
1:25.0	Except it was many, many orders of magnitude bigger.
1:30.0	The event in question began in the evening of November 12th, 1833.
1:35.0	As night set in over the southern and eastern United States,
1:38.0	people were witness to what we would call today a meteor shower.
1:42.0	There were multiple shooting stars going off each
1:44.3	minute. Not a lot but more than average and enough to be noticeable.
1:48.4	Certainly nothing to record for posterity and to be worth doing a podcast about almost 200 years after the fact.
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