Forty Year Meteor Mystery Possibly Solved
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Lydia
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Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:35 pm
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Forty Year Meteor Mystery Possibly Solved
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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."
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/23aug_mariner4.htm?
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