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To: henbane

1:33 isn’t “no significant risk”. A lunar impact would be more interesting to watch, but large ejecta could be a problem on Earth over subsequent months or years.


46 posted on 12/24/2025 10:47:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!)
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To: All

Piazzi, who discovered Ceres, was retroactively vindicated when the IAU re-classified Ceres as a minor planet.

But in fact, an asteroid is a planet, it’s just usually too small to get that designation. Pluto was removed from the list of major planets.

When he said he had found a planet, he didn’t know there would be hundreds then thousands more of them to be discovered, all smaller than Ceres, and that they would not be accepted as planets.

Also, while Christmas cookies might be going stale on Dec 27th, I don’t see how new years resolutions would already be abandoned unless one was travelling backwards in time.


48 posted on 12/24/2025 11:24:54 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Do not go gentle into that good night; rage, rage against the dying of the light -- Dylan Thomas)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yes--the largest moon ejecta could definitely be a problem.

Many large pieces of moon would tear thru our various satellite layers and wreak pure hell on earthly communications of all kinds.

58 posted on 12/25/2025 1:36:27 PM PST by henbane (✧ π•π”Έβ„•π•Œπ”Έβ„π• 𝟚𝟘 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝--𝕄𝔸𝔾𝔸 π•„π”Έπ”Ύβ„•π•€π”½π•€β„‚π•Œπ•Š ✧)
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