Comet may hit Mars, and we haven’t any seismological instruments aboard…

by | Mar 27, 2013 | Journal | 8 comments

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But it may convince some people on Earth that a program to deal with these things matters…

8 Comments

  1. BlueCatShip
    BlueCatShip on March 27, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    Possibly more ostriches than Chicken Littles. I suspect the rocks in their heads are bigger than those float in space.

    Lot crazy human-ity, a? Got all eggs one basket, make all around shake, then complain omelet got.

  2. purplejulian
    purplejulian on March 28, 2013 at 12:04 am

    I wish there was a like button, blucatship! 😀

  3. dhawktx
    dhawktx on March 28, 2013 at 5:42 am

    *pokes Virtual LOVE Button for BCS!* Repeatedly.

  5. Dan
    Dan on March 28, 2013 at 8:03 am

    If we actually get an impact of the nucleus, it’s going to be a massive wake-up call, because it will likely do enough damage that not only would Curiosity be destroyed, but the surface of Mars itself will be significantly altered. Such an impact is unlikely.

    However, there is enough additional matter in the coma around the nucleus that there is a reasonably good chance that there will be several smaller impacts from this matter, and since the thin Martian atmosphere won’t do much to burn them up on the way in, they should still have quite an impact on the surface. Will Curiosity survive? It’s all going to depend on where it is compared to those impacts. Either way, it’s going to have front row seats to the kind of impact we haven’t had hear on earth in hundreds of thousands if not millions of years.

  6. Hawke
    Hawke on March 28, 2013 at 8:36 am

    This is even more exciting (and somewhat morbid) than when the Shoemaker-Levi 9 comet smacked Jupiter upside the face.

  7. chondrite
    chondrite on March 28, 2013 at 12:58 pm

    Just in case we didn’t get a clue after the Chelyabinsk Incident last month…

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