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Related: About this forumAstronomers Have Revealed The Biggest Meteor Shower Ever Recorded In The Solar System
On our planet, were 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
(160,416 posts)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
(69 posts)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
(24,327 posts)I know they're not always reliable. But, I did find references to this event elsewhere.
This was just a fuller write-up