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Is a Comet on a Collision Course with Mars?
Simulation of the close approach of C/2013 A1 to Mars in Celestia using the latest MPC elements. Credit: Ian Musgrave/Astroblog.
There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are still determining the trajectory of the comet, named C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), but at the very least, it is going to come fairly close to the Red Planet in October of 2014. “Even if it doesn’t impact it will look pretty good from Earth, and spectacular from Mars,” wrote Australian amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave, “probably a magnitude -4 comet as seen from Mars’s surface.”
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2013-02-26 11:33:24
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