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Name: Near Collision of a Comet with Mars
Start: 2014-10-19T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2014-10-19T23:59:59-04:00
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Near Collision of a Comet with Mars

October 19, 2014

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All eyes will be on the Red Planet in October as Comet C/2013 A1(Siding Spring), discovered by Robert H. McNaught at Australia’s Siding Spring Observatory, will pass extremely close to Mars. The comet will come so close, in fact, that its coma may envelop Mars, as well as create a stupendous shower of meteors as seen from the Martian surface.