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Dispersed Debris. Search for a more realistic explanation eventually led scientists to a minor comet called 1866 I, which circles the sun every 331 years...
...cuts through 1866 I's trail every November slicing into the thin stream of widely dispersed debris that produces the Leonid showers. In 1833, the earth's course took it through the middle of the main cluster of Leonids that follow closely behind the parent comet; it encountered a vastly larger number of meteoroids than usual. Just 33 years later, in November 1866, there was another fiery but less spectacular shower; the main cluster orbiting the sun once every 33¼ years was still three months away. In 1899 and 1932, at the time of the November encounter...
...date was November 13, 1833, and a fragment of a comet had just struck the earth...
Every 33 years or so there is a chance of this happening again, when the remnants of an old comet once more pass near the earth. Calculations show that this will happen tonight...
...comet in question has apparently been disintegrating for centuries, strewing its orbit with solid particles. Every year, in mid-November, the earth passes through this orbit, and some of these enter our atmosphere and burn up, producing a yearly shower of shooting stars. But the fantastic spectacle of 1833, as well as similar ones in 1799 and 1866, come from a large swarm of particles which only comes by every 33 years...