Close to the Perseid meteor shower’s peak (next Saturday,...

Close to the Perseid meteor shower’s peak (next Saturday, 12th) one think on how impressive it had to be the November 1833 Leonid meteor shower, with about 100000 meteors per hour, around 30 per second (in the picture an engraving by Adolf Vollmy, 1889). These days during the Perseid shower, we have to settle with an expected beat of 150 per hour -about a couple of them per minute.

Related readings and references:

• The Greatest Meteor Show of All Time (NASA - Watch the Skies)
  
• Perseid meteor shower 2017 weather forecast (Met Office)
  
• Perseid Meteor Shower 2017: When, Where & How to See It (Space.com)
  
• Leonid meteor shower 1833 (EarthSky.org)
  
• 1833 Meteor Storm Started Citizen Science (National Geographic)
  
• Brief history of the Leonid shower (NASA’s Leonid Multi-Instrument
  Aircraft Campaign Homepage)