R.I.P. Scout26
Heaven's gate 1910?
Just FYI and general interest, a list of the major meteor showers:https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/The next "big" one is the Leonids, which wil peak on the night of Nov 16-17, 2020. The moon will be 5% full.
(Some boiler plate --skip down a bit until you get to this):So, if not this year’s Perseid shower, what was the greatest meteor show of all time? I think many meteor researchers would give that award to the 1833 Leonids, which had rates of tens of thousands, perhaps even 100,000, meteors per hour. During a good Perseid shower under ideal conditions, you can see about one meteor per minute. Now imagine yourself being back in 1833, on the night of Nov. 12. Looking outside, you would see something like 20 to 30 meteors PER SECOND. No wonder we read accounts like this one from South Carolina (Chambers, A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Volume 1, 1889)(Description follows.)
Well? Did we survive?
A fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, was hailed as a hero after saving 44 children from imploding window glass cuts. Despite not knowing the origin of the intense flash of light, Karbysheva thought it prudent to take precautionary measures by ordering her students to stay away from the room's windows and to perform a duck and cover maneuver and then to leave the building. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously lacerated when the blast arrived and window glass severed a tendon in one of her arms and left thigh; none of her students, whom she ordered to hide under their desks, suffered cuts.[74][75] The teacher was taken to a hospital which received 112 people that day. The majority of the patients were suffering from cuts.[75]
Flash? Duck!
Sounds like a Daffy Duck cartoon.