Comet May Collide with Mars in 2014
Written by The Night Sky Guy on March 10, 2013 – 10:30 am -
Mars may have a really bad day next year on October 19th. That’s when there is a very slight chance a newly discovered comet may impact our neighboring planet, says NASA.
Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) was discovered by Australian Robert H. McNaught, a prolific comet and asteroid hunter just two months ago and NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , in Pasadena, Calif., has been constantly refining the comet’s exact trajectory ever since.
Read the rest of my Mars comet story at National Geographic News
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By Enrique Fiset on Mar 10, 2013 | Reply
@Mars You’re gonna have a bad time.
I hope we will not lose our rovers because of that.