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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?


2 posted on 03/03/2013 2:39:40 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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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.

6 posted on 03/03/2013 2:45:54 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: GeronL
*Ow!*


8 posted on 03/03/2013 2:48:53 PM PST by Salamander (We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
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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.

14 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.)
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To: GeronL
Lucky for us we have five active probes at Mars,that is two rovers on the surface and three spacecraft in orbit around Mars, with a fourth orbiter, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN or MAVEN to launch in November of this year
23 posted on 03/03/2013 3:43:43 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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