Editing Meteor shower (section)

== Extraterrestrial meteor showers ==
[[File:Earth Sol63A UFO-A067R1.jpg|thumb|Mars meteor by [[Spirit rover|MER ''Spirit'']] rover]]

Any other [[Solar System]] body with a reasonably transparent atmosphere can also have meteor showers.  As the Moon is in the neighborhood of Earth it can experience the same showers, but will have its own phenomena due to its lack of an atmosphere ''per se'', such as vastly increasing its [[sodium tail of the Moon|sodium tail]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hunten |first=D. M. |year=1991 |title=A possible meteor shower on the Moon |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1231305 |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=18 |issue=11 |pages=2101–2104 |bibcode=1991GeoRL..18.2101H |doi=10.1029/91GL02543}}</ref>  NASA now maintains an ongoing database of observed impacts on the moon<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lunar Impacts |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/lunar/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315104759/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/lunar/ |archive-date=2023-03-15 |website=[[NASA]]|date=13 February 2017 |last1=Mohon |first1=Lee }}</ref> maintained by the [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] whether from a shower or not.

Many planets and moons have impact craters dating back large spans of time. But new craters, perhaps even related to meteor showers are possible. Mars, and thus its moons, is known to have meteor showers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meteor showers at Mars |url=http://www.arm.ac.uk/~aac/meteors_on_mars.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724073904/http://www.arm.ac.uk/~aac/meteors_on_mars.html |archive-date=2007-07-24 |access-date=2007-11-26}}</ref> These have not been observed on other planets as yet but may be presumed to exist. For Mars in particular, although these are different from the ones seen on Earth because of the different orbits of Mars and Earth relative to the orbits of comets. The Martian atmosphere has less than one percent of the density of Earth's at ground level, at their upper edges, where meteoroids strike; the two are more similar. Because of the similar air pressure at altitudes for meteors, the effects are much the same. Only the relatively slower motion of the meteoroids due to increased distance from the sun should marginally decrease meteor brightness. This is somewhat balanced because the slower descent means that Martian meteors have more time to ablate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Can Meteors Exist at Mars? |url=http://star.arm.ac.uk/~aac/atmos2.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701055010/http://star.arm.ac.uk/~aac/atmos2.jpg |archive-date=2017-07-01 |access-date=2006-12-30}}</ref>

On March 7, 2004, the panoramic camera on [[Mars Exploration Rover]] ''[[Spirit (rover)|Spirit]]'' recorded a streak which is now believed to have been caused by a meteor from a Martian meteor shower associated with comet [[114P/Wiseman-Skiff]].  A strong display from this shower was expected on December 20, 2007. Other showers speculated about are a "Lambda Geminid" shower associated with the [[Eta Aquariids]] of Earth (''i.e.'', both associated with [[Halley's Comet|Comet 1P/Halley]]), a "Beta Canis Major" shower associated with [[Comet 13P/Olbers]], and "Draconids" from [[5335 Damocles]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meteor Showers and their Parent Bodies |url=http://star.arm.ac.uk/~aac/showers.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003155932/http://star.arm.ac.uk/~aac/showers.jpg |archive-date=2008-10-03 |access-date=2006-12-30}}</ref>

Isolated massive impacts have been observed at Jupiter: The 1994 [[Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9]] which formed a brief trail as well, and successive events since then (see [[List of Jupiter events#Impact|List of Jupiter events]].) Meteors or meteor showers have been discussed for most of the objects in the Solar System with an atmosphere: Mercury,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rosemary M. Killen |last2=Joseph M. Hahn |date=December 10, 2014 |title=Impact Vaporization as a Possible Source of Mercury's Calcium Exosphere |journal=Icarus |volume=250 |pages=230–237 |bibcode=2015Icar..250..230K |doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2014.11.035 |hdl=2060/20150010116}}</ref> Venus,<ref>[{{Cite journal |last=Christou |first=Apostolos A. |year=2007 |title=The P/Halley Stream: Meteor Showers on Earth, Venus and Mars |journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets |volume=102 |issue=1–4 |pages=125–131 |doi=10.1007/s11038-007-9201-3 |s2cid=54709255}}</ref> Saturn's moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lakdawalla |first=Emily |author-link=Emily Lakdawalla |title=Meteor showers on Titan: an example of why Twitter is awesome for scientists and the public |url=http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/03061019-twitter-meteor-titan.html |access-date=3 June 2013}}

*Note also the [[Huygens (spacecraft)|''Huygens'' lander]] was studied for its meteoric entry and an observation campaign was attempted: [http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/huygensentry.pdf An Artificial meteor on Titan?], by Ralph D. Lorenz, ''journal??'', vol 43, issue 5, October 2002, pp. 14–17 and {{cite journal | doi = 10.1029/2005JE002603 | volume=111 | title=Huygens entry emission: Observation campaign, results, and lessons learned | year=2006 | journal=Journal of Geophysical Research | last1 = Lorenz | first1 = Ralph D.| issue=E7 | bibcode=2006JGRE..111.7S11L | doi-access=free }}</ref> Neptune's moon [[Triton (moon)|Triton]],<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~alw2165/pesnell.pdf Watching meteors on Triton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327221352/http://www.columbia.edu/~alw2165/pesnell.pdf |date=2014-03-27 }}, W. Dean Pesnell, J.M. Grebowsky, and Andrew L. Weisman, ''Icarus'', issue 169, (2004) pp. 482–491</ref> and [[Pluto]].<ref>[http://www.planetary.brown.edu/planetary/documents/Micro_36/Abstracts/050_Kosarev_Nemtchinov.pdf IR Flashes induced by meteoroid impacts onto Pluto's surface], by I.B. Kosarev, I. V. Nemtchinov, ''Microsymposium'', vol. 36, MS 050, 2002</ref>