Astronomers Have Revealed The Biggest Meteor Shower Ever Recorded In The Solar System

[rpannier]

On our planet, we’re quite in luck if we see a few hundred meteors an hour during a meteor shower. But if you were on Mars about three years ago, nevertheless, you would have witnessed something extraordinary – 108,000 meteors per hour, the biggest meteor shower ever in recorded history on any planet.

This meteor shower was a result of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) zipping past the planet on October 19, 2014. We were lucky to have a spacecraft in circling the planet back then, and what they observed was unbelievable.

link:
http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2017/09/astronomers-have-revealed-biggest.html#.XHTnhaBS-M8

[Judi Lynn]

1. It's beautiful! Clearly not of THIS world, for sure.

I guess it's the very first photo we could ever see anything resembling this astonishing event.

It will definitely stick in one's mind.

Thank you.

[kst]

2. physics-astronomy.com???

I've found physics-astronomy.com to be a rich source of nonsense and inaccurately captioned photos (though I didn't find any errors in this particular article).

space.com is more reliable. Here's their article about the same topic:

https://www.space.com/38225-comet-siding-spring-mars-meteor-shower.html

[rpannier]

3. Thanks for the link

I know they're not always reliable. But, I did find references to this event elsewhere.
This was just a fuller write-up