Bristish astronomer Fiammetta Wilson was born #OTD in 1864.
Wilson is best known for her work as an amateur astronomer focusing on meteor observation. She meticulously recorded and analyzed meteor showers, contributing valuable data to the field. She became one of the first women to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916. Between the years 1910-20, she observed about 10,000 meteors and accurately calculated the paths of 650 of them.