(meteorobs) Meteor picture from Mars?
GeoZay at aol.com
GeoZay at aol.com
Thu Jun 2 09:18:49 EDT 2005
>>The shooting star was low in the sky and ran across the horizon, creating
a relatively long spectacle. If you were on Mars and held a fist at arm's
length, resting it on the horizon, the meteor would have soared barely above
your fist. In astronomers' terms, it was 14.2 degrees off the horizon.
If you could trace the meteor back and below the horizon, it would have
appeared to emanate from the constellation Cepheus, and so the scientists have
dubbed the apparent meteor shower the Cepheids.<<
So one meteor has been seen over mars and we already got a shower name for
it. I wonder how many degrees below the horizon the "radiant" was? Has a ZHR
been determined yet? Has a sporadic been considered? I suppose like earth, mars
would probably have some kind of shower activity almost every night of the
year...as well as sporadics.
GeoZay
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