Extraterrestrial meteors A martian meteor and its parent comet

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Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005natur.435..581s&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 435, Issue 7042, pp. 581 (2005).

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Regular meteor showers occur when a planet approaches the orbit of a periodic comet - for example, the Leonid shower is evident around 17 November every year as Earth skims past the dusty trail of comet Tempel-Tuttle. Such showers are expected to occur on Mars as well, and on 7 March last year, the panoramic camera of Spirit, the Mars Exploration Rover, revealed a curious streak across the martian sky. Here we show that the timing and orientation of this streak, and the shape of its light curve, are consistent with the existence of a regular meteor shower associated with the comet Wiseman-Skiff, which could be characterized as martian Cepheids.

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