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Re: (meteorobs) meteor observations from Mars?


Thanks Robert! - i guess planet Earth is still probably the most comfortable
planet for us to watch meteors from - i dont like the look of those cosmic
rays too much!!! 
Kearn

> In the "Proceedings of the IMC 1993 (International Meteor Conference of IMO)
> Puimichel, 23-26 September 1993 (France) at pages 97-105 there is a paper
> by Alexandra Terentjeva on the meteor showers that can to be see from Mars
> surface (58 showers are listed), and answering at a question after his
> letture
> she said that meteor amateur astronomers should to see big bolids on Mars
> when Mars it's near to Earth (the last summer Mars was at its minimum
> distance
> from Earth in the last 70.000 years). In the present days
> on Mars should be visible the K Leonids (of Mars) (5-6 March) and the Beta
> Leonids (of Mars) (12-20 March). A meteor can to be visible from the surface
> of Mars? I think yes, because a meteor it's visible from Earth surface
> during a travel with big differences of pression and temperature, the
> same must to occur from Mars surface because there is certainly a windows
> with the same or similar pression and temperature.
> Roberto Gorelli
> 

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