This comet dust can reach speeds of up to 110,000 mph (177,027 kph) as it slams into Earth's atmosphere, causing it to ignite as dazzling meteors.
Cassini will be traveling 19,000 mph (30,580 kph), so it should take just an instant to penetrate the plume.
Gabrielle was centered about 65 miles (105 kilometers) west-northwest of Bermuda with winds of up to 45 mph (75 kph), and it was drifting slowly westward at 3 mph (6 kph).
Megi packed sustained winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour and gusts of 162 mph (260 kph) as it made landfall midday Monday at Palanan Bay in Isabela province, felling trees and utility poles and cutting off power, phone and Internet services.
Hurricane Irma was upgraded to a Category Five storm Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (281 kph) expected as it moves towards the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean, the Miami-based NaTuesdayHurricane CenTuesdayd Tuesday.
"Although I didn't actually hit it, last summer I had to swerve to barely miss a black bear that was bounding across the road during a decent at 60-plus kph (I was tucked and not looking too far down the road)," writes Garry Donaldson.
An American passenger injured on the train told the Associated Press that the locomotive was traveling at 194 kph (121 mph) seconds before it derailed as it approached the curve, where the speed limit is 80 kph (50 mph).
Humberto's maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph (130 kph) and the US National Hurricane Center said it could gain more strength before a weakening trend likely starts, with the storm still far from land.
And so it was that KPH was eventually reborn as KSM and began broadcasting in Morse a few hours each Saturday, a development that attracted the attention of other aficionados.
