Comet Siding Spring Mars Impact

A nasa media telecon on friday nov.

Comet siding spring mars impact. Edt hurtling at about 126 000 mph 56 kilometers per second. There is the possibility that siding spring will graze or even hit mars in a deep catastrophic impact. Until that event no one had seen a comet impact a planet. 19 comet c 2013 a1 also known as comet siding spring will pass within about 87 000 miles 139 500 kilometers of the red planet less than half the distance between earth and our moon and less than one tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of earth.

Siding spring s nucleus will come closest to mars around 11 27 a m. This possibility is not the likely outcome of siding spring s passage but it cannot be ruled out. 19 2014 by a telescope with the slooh community observatory during a rare flyby that scientists called a once in a lifetime event. 7 will provide initial science observations of comet c 2013 a1 siding spring s close flyby of mars and the impact on the martian atmosphere.

When the comet was first discovered astronomers. While earth awaits comet ison the red planet awaits a comet called siding spring. The faint comet shows a small condensed coma and bent tail.