Mariner 4 (Mars) meteor mystery solved

[MeteorWayne]

Just ran across this on the meteorobs maillist.<br /><br />It described meteor impacts recorded by Mariner 4 in<br />1965. A possible source has been proposed.<br /><br />Very interesting for a meteor guy!!<br /><br /> NASA link here <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

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I am not surpised. This is a real threat that crewed craft will have to face.<br /><br />There are many small comets & asteroid that we do not know about as yet, the orbits of the majority of which do not cross Earth's.<br /><br />Hence the search by the Mars Exploration Rover A Spirit for suspected Martian Meteor showers.<br /><br />Mariner 4 obviously caught this one in interplanetary space well away from Mars.<br /><br />http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=sciastro&Number=524462&page=5&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>