Are there any instruments monitoring space objects (meteors) that might hit our sun or any other plant?

Question

We know that we got scientists monitoring space for meteors that might collide with earth. But what about objects hitting the sun or any other planet in our solar system. Any significant meteor hitting one of these planets or the sun might cause an imbalance that would still have an effect on life on earth. Any feedback out there??

Answer 1

What we do when we see a meteor with a decently large mass, is we take its coordinates and we plug them in to find out its path. So when we determine whether or not a meteor will hit Earth, we are also determining if it will hit any other planet or the sun itself.

Answer 2

The SOHO space craft has seen several comets hit the Sun. See the source. Also, Jupiter was hit by a comet in the 1990s, and every astronomer in the world was watching. But the answer to your question is no. Nobody really cares about other planets or the Sun getting hit. That could not cause any imbalance in the solar system at all. The impacts are just too small to make any difference. They only reason it is a big deal on Earth is all those delicate life forms we have here that would be killed by something that is a nothing little bump to the planet as a whole.

Answer 3

No, there are no instruments to the best of my knowledge. There will also be no significant imbalance if a meteor were to hit one of the planets. Eg the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter had no effects.

Answer 4

Almost anything could hit the Sun and it would be of no consequence. The Sun is really big and even planets hitting it wouldn't affect it. Most things would burn up before getting there anyway.