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Shooting Stars

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published January 8, 2019 at 2:02 PM EST

Of all natural phenomena, one that never fails to elicit a cry of exclamation is a bright shooting star. Each year the earth crosses several comet dust trails at specific times during its orbit around the sun. Perhaps the most spectacular meteor storm in recorded history occurred on November 13, 1833. During a four hour period beginning at midnight the skies were lit by thousands of shooting stars each minute. Every living person in North America was likely aware of the event.

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Kelby Ouchley

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.

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