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1 in 75 chance of Asteroid hitting Mars Jan 30

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_on_sc/mars_asteroid]Mars Impact[/url]

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  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Very interesting.. Poor Mars.. :(
  • SpiritOneSpiritOne Magneto ABQ NM
    Way to go Mars!!! Take one for the team!
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Great, another reason to delay the moon mission yet again, now we need to focus on rocks hitting us.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    If it does happen it would certainly be interesting to observe the effects
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE=SpiritOne;168299] Way to go Mars!!! Take one for the team![/QUOTE]

    Yeah! Just walk it off, it'll be OK.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE=SpiritOne;168299] Way to go Mars!!! Take one for the team![/QUOTE]And after that it's Earth's turn, Jupiter took Shoemaker-Levy 9 and we're next in this direction...

    Maybe after all Earth will have "dates" with Apophis.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    We must do our part for the Solar System.
  • ChaosedChaosed Ranger
    Poor little mars rangers.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    [QUOTE=Biggles;168312]We must do our part for the Solar System.[/QUOTE]

    ...by blowing up a small portion of it!
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Do we need to do any more for the solar system? I mean we seem to be wrecking this planet pretty well, so I cant help but feel blowing up a bit of Mars is surplus to requirements :p

    Entertaining tho! ;)
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    Oe real benefit: instead of going to mars for a sample, we may be able to wait for a piece of Mars to come to us.
  • AkrovahAkrovah Ranger
    :laugh:
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE=bobo;168327]Oe real benefit: instead of going to mars for a sample, we may be able to wait for a piece of Mars to come to us.[/QUOTE]We already have samples from there.
    [url]http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/[/url]
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Nothing new about impact candidate of thread but there's nice article about predicting Apophis' orbit.

    [url]http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/[/url]

    [i]It was found that small uncertainties in the masses and positions of the planets and Sun can cause up to 23 Earth radii of prediction error for Apophis by 2036.[/i]
    Isn't it nice to know how uncertain even this kind simple sounding calculations can be?
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