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BREAKING NEWS --- Mars to be hit by massive comet! 40 billion nuke bomb size explosion! CONFIRMED!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 35179160:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzY2ODY0X0Q3ODIzNkI2] [quote:UNkLE |3UCK:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzY2Njk5XzI0MzU3QkNF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 75950:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzY1OTQwX0YxQUU1NUY0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 34327655:MV8yMTUxNjkwXzM2MzY1NzE2XzZGMjQyOThF] NASA is gonna be pissed that billions of $$$ is going to be vapourised within seconds. Would make for a hell of a show though, and a good indicator of what effect an object that size would have on hitting Earth (assuming it hits Mars). [/quote] Just the thing that may make Mars habitable when the dust settles. Melt those ice caps. Bring out that frozen underground water. Yeah, Baby, YEAH! [/quote] Actually it would more likely send up enough dust and gas to blanket the entire planet and block out sunlight which would cause a deep freeze for several yrs... [/quote] A strike would produce gobs of heat, converting solid carbon dioxide in the ground to gas. CO2 is not a primary greenhouse gas, but it could raise the temps on Mars. Average temp now on Mars is -67 degree F. How much could an impact producing gobs of heat and a carbon dioxide atmosphere raise the temps to? Who knows? Depends on the size of the impactor, its speed and its angle of impact. [/quote]
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The core of the comet will be moving 56 kilometers per sec when it smashes into Mars. The explosion it creates will be equal to
40 BILLION 500kt nuclear bombs
(avg US and Russ arsenal weapon) going off at once, or 20 billion megatons of TNT, or 1.33 trillion Hiroshima bombs, or 1.3 billion Castle Bravo explosions. Its enough to kill all life on the planet if any were living there.
Astronomers predict a large-scale disaster on the Red Planet in October 2014, when a comet may ram into Mars, creating a 500-kilometer crater, the website of the Russian observatory ISON-NM said.
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link to english.pravda.ru
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comet core 30 miles across
collision speed 35 miles per second (126,000 miles per hour)
It may make Mars temporarily as bright as the sun. The crater left behind will be 500 kilometers across. A lot of rock will be ejected into space and become stray asteroids. This will be an epic event.
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