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To: SunkenCiv

Is it true that Uranus always gets hit by asteroids from behind?

Seriously, why is it that we never see any big asteroid collision with the moon?


3 posted on 03/03/2009 7:33:44 PM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

The moon is about 1/4 the size of the earth so I suspect the chances of impact would be about 1/4 less than the chances of a bigun hitting us.


4 posted on 03/03/2009 7:37:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
We saw a big collision on Jupiter a couple years ago. These things don't just happen every few months or so. Wadya want, egg in yer beer?
23 posted on 03/03/2009 8:29:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Maybe we have.....

One theory of what a group of monks saw in the sky in 1178 is a meteor that caused the lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
25 posted on 03/03/2009 8:37:18 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

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A Celestial Collision
Alaska Science Forum | February 10, 1983 | Larry Gedney
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33 posted on 03/04/2009 4:51:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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