Comet Siding Spring Mars Explosion

A huge electromagnetic explosion was spotted on mars after comet siding spring c 2013 a1 made a very close fly by in its closest approach to the sun before martian gravity flung it back to the oort cloud from when it came.

Comet siding spring mars explosion.

Astronomers say the siding spring comet has travelled billions of miles to reach mars originating from the oort cloud a vast expanse of residual material from the formation of the solar system. Comet siding spring mars flyby on sunday oct. Comet siding spring passed extremely close to mars on 19 october 2014 at 18 28 0 01 utc. The comet s bright coma a diffuse cloud of dust enshrouding the nucleus and a dusty tail are clearly visible.

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. Follow comet siding spring at marscomet on october 19 comet siding spring will pass within 88 000 miles of mars just one third of the distance from the e. The solid icy comet nucleus is too small to be resolved in the hubble picture. 86 500 mi from the center point of mars and the uncertainty region shows.

25 700 mi from the center of mars. This story makes me sick. Hubble images show comet siding spring has passed the snow and water lines the points at which the sun s warmth activates or releases gases and water ice to form the coma and tail. When comet siding spring passed mars the comet s coma washed over the planet for several hours with the dense inner coma perhaps reaching the surface.

This video was taken a couple of weeks ago by. Initial observations by leonid elenin on 27 february 2013 suggested that it might pass 0 000276 au 41 300 km. We hope to witness two atmospheres colliding explains david brain of the university of colorado s laboratory for. Comet siding spring s dust tail will completely engulf the entire planet when mars travels through it.

On october 19 2014 comet siding spring will pass by mars only 139 500 km away which would be like a comet passing about 1 3 of the distance between earth and the moon.