{"id":9059,"date":"2014-10-19T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2014-10-19T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:26:49","slug":"comet-siding-spring-passing-close-by-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9059","title":{"rendered":"Comet Siding Spring passing close by Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comet Siding Spring is just about to reach its closest approach to Mars. Below\u00a0are links to various sites with info and imagery:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fpss-img_holder_div_landing\">\n<div id=\"fpss-img-div\"><a class=\"fpss_img\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/comet-siding-spring-c2013-a1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/466x248\/public\/comet-siding-spring-trajectory-mars-full_0.jpg?itok=NeRokMSP\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"248\" align=\"Bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"landing-fpss-introtext\">\n<div class=\"landing-slidetext\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/comet-siding-spring-c2013-a1\">Comet Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Comet Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1) is racing toward Mars<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for a close encounter on October 19, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>*\u00a0Latest NASA news and images:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/comets\/sidingspring\/\" target=\"_d\">Comets: Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1) &#8211; NASA JPL &#8211; Mars Exploration Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/comet-siding-spring\/#.VEP_ovnF_Ak\" target=\"_d\">Comet Siding Spring | NASA<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>On Sunday, Oct. 19, Comet C\/2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet &#8212; less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one-tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth. Siding Spring&#8217;s nucleus will come closest to Mars around 11:27 a.m. PDT (2:27 p.m. EDT), hurtling at about 126,000 mph (56 kilometers per second).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fpss-img_holder_div_landing\">\n<div id=\"fpss-img-div\"><a class=\"fpss_img\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/comets\/hubble-image-of-comet-siding-spring\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/466x248\/public\/14-090-hubble-comet_0-full.jpg?itok=_WCE-mE4\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"248\" align=\"Bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"landing-fpss-introtext\">\n<div class=\"landing-slidetext\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/comets\/hubble-image-of-comet-siding-spring\">Hubble Image of Comet Siding Spring<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The images above show &#8212; before and after filtering &#8212; comet C\/2013 A1, <\/em><br \/>\n<em>also known as Siding Spring, as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>* ESA live webcast:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/eurospaceagency\" target=\"_d\">European Space Agency &#8211; live streaming video powered by Livestream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Live webcast from the SLOOH online observatory:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/live.slooh.com\/stadium\/live\/comet-siding-spring-swings-by-on-a-close-approach-to-mars\" target=\"_d\">live.slooh.com\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Comet Siding Spring Swings by on a Close Approach to Mars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Display of the current position of the comet in the sky:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theskylive.com\/c2013a1-tracker\" target=\"_d\">Comet C\/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) Live Position and Finder Chart &#8211; TheSkyLive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* An animation of NASA&#8217;s Mars Odyssey \u00a0orbiter maneuvering to image Comet Siding Spring:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xgyN7XvZY0o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Path of the comet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/comets\/SSDanimation_01c_6seconds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Simulation of the Comet Siding Spring\" src=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/comets\/SSDanimation_01c_6seconds.gif\" alt=\"Simulation of the Comet Siding Spring\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><em>Brought to you by the Near-Earth Object (NEO) office<br \/>\nat NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comet Siding Spring is just about to reach its closest approach to Mars. Below\u00a0are links to various sites with info and imagery: Comet Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1)\u00a0 Comet Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1) is racing toward Mars for a close encounter on October 19, 2014. *\u00a0Latest NASA news and images: Comets: Siding Spring (C\/2013 A1) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet Siding Spring passing close by Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2m7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8841,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8841","url_meta":{"origin":9059,"position":0},"title":"Comet flyby of Mars unlikely to damage orbiters","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like the pass of the comet Siding Spring by Mars on October 19th will not in fact bring along\u00a0a dust cloud of fast moving particles thick enough to damage the spacecraft orbiting the planet: By the middle of this summer, published estimates (based on new images and additional modelling)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"Comet C\/2013 A1 Siding Spring seen on 6 September 2014 from Argentina. 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