(meteorobs) Meteor Mystery, Solved?

[Dave Hostetter]

> NASA Science News for August 23, 2006
>
> In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of
> meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm. Where did
> the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years. Now,
astronomers
> may have found a solution: Mariner 4 had a close encounter with a "dark
> comet."

Or maybe it was just the Great Galactic Ghoul, a mythical creature who hates
spacecraft, jokingly blamed by space scientists for the rate of loss of Mars
probes....

Dave Hostetter