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Mars May Get Hit By a Comet in 2014
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| February 28, 2013
| Phil Plait
Posted on 03/03/2013 2:33:55 PM PST by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile; KevinDavis
we saw what happens when a comet hits a gas giant with Shoemaker-Levy 9.... but hitting Mars would be an awesome sight. Could cause debris that becomes another small moon?
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03/03/2013 2:39:40 PM PST
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GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: JerseyanExile
I get an explosive yield of roughly one billion megatons. That's a big twinkie. </obscure Ghostbusters reference>
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03/03/2013 2:39:57 PM PST
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: JerseyanExile
With respect to some possible future comet hitting Earth: some will say that deflecting something nine miles in diameter (or bigger) is impossible.
We don't need to deflect it. We just need to hit it with something that will cause it to fragment enough that most of the energy will be released in the upper atmosphere.
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03/03/2013 2:44:32 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: JerseyanExile
Sorry Martians, but I'd love to see it collide. I'd love to see an apocalyptic explosion, from a safe distance, of course.
To: GeronL
Could cause debris that becomes another small moon? I think it means we don't have to go to Mars. It will be coming to us.
To: JerseyanExile
Women and minorities to be hardest hit.
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:46:56 PM PST
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Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Te?xas Eagle)
To: GeronL
*Ow!*
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03/03/2013 2:48:53 PM PST
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Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: Vince Ferrer
Is Washington D.C. too close? Its right on the coast, so any ‘spatter’ would glance off into the Atlantic...
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:49:33 PM PST
by
45semi
(A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
To: Texas Eagle
Mars is the only planet inhabited entirely by beautiful, females, and now earth caused global warming has put them at risk if CNN is correct about global warming and events in outer space.
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posted on
03/03/2013 2:54:16 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:01:50 PM PST
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GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Salamander
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:02:06 PM PST
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GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: JerseyanExile
Martians are all gonna die!
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:03:58 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: GeronL
we saw what happens when a comet hits a gas giant with Shoemaker-Levy 9.... but hitting Mars would be an awesome sight. Could cause debris that becomes another small moon? Shoemakekr-Levy 9 hit Jupiter on the side facing away from us. We saw the flash reflect off some of its moons though, and IIRC the fireball resulting from one impact was visible over the Jovian horizon as it spread into nearby space.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:03:58 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: Revolting cat!
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03/03/2013 3:05:46 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: JerseyanExile
In case you just cant get enough impact news, it looks like Mars may actually get hit by a comet in 2014! As it stands right now, the chance of a direct impact are small, but its likely Mars will get pelted by the debris associated with the comet.
If only those darned Republicans hadn't caused the sequester to happen, this could have been avoided.
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:07:40 PM PST
by
Bob
To: Texas Eagle
Some one warn Sheila Jackson-lee
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:09:47 PM PST
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Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Steely Tom
didn’t Galileo get some pictures of the impacts?
I seem to recall that
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posted on
03/03/2013 3:11:14 PM PST
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GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Steely Tom
And a Google search brings this up...
looks like Ganymede got hit once upon a time
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03/03/2013 3:12:36 PM PST
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GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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