Potential Epic Comet Collision with Mars in 2014 *UPDATE: VIDEO ON FIRST POST*

Meh.

I find this news extremely exciting! ( there will be abundant water on Mars, soon)

Thanks Astro for the heads up.

Wish Kent Steadman had still been around.

The time frame for Mars "colonisation" is around 2018, I think. Have you all seen the AXE deoderant advertisements, lately?

When do you expect to get the results?

I should be able to complete a preliminary analysis in the next day or two hopefully.

Oh something is being done. Russia has for quite some years proposed global cooperation to form an Earth shield. With our missile and most limitless fusion bomb technologies and the West's electronics we'll already be on our good and merry way towards being safe from most asteroids. WE didn't wake up after our meteorite impact. Recently we even calculated how many wide - angle telescopes are needed for an Early Warning System (around twenty I think).

Guess who doesn't want to cooperate? (Something about no nukes in space?) The United States Government and NATO countries. (Just like on the rogue nations missile shield.) Guys, we can't do this all by ourselves! We need some international help if we are to pull this off and not end up like the dinosaurs!

Astro, I know there aren't many people using this CUDA accelerated N-Body simulator thingy / program (Forgot it's name) But when you do finish your calculations would you be able to upload some files so we (who pirated and bought that software : P) can see with our own eyes what trajectory that celestial body will have. Ephemer(ides?) and such things? I'm probably getting it all wrong. Just finished files we could input into that program, please. This is my curiosity speaking.

Last Edited by Snuffielover on 02/25/2013 02:37 AM

Maybe Chuck Norris is available.

Very Cool 5 Stars for your work.

Thanks!

TV stations are going to talk about this all month.. ;)

If it hit's what are the possibility's of this jump starting the geomagnetic processes needed to get a magnetic field going ?

Because if I understand it right, any water made would be blasted out into space by solar radiation without a magnetic field protecting the thicker atmosphere.

or that's what I got from Discover Science Channel.

that would be fun witnessing the rebirth of Mars as a living planet.

If we are still around to witness this event???

I have been shown this collision on many occasions. I also have been shown the repercussions, however it is not for me to spread fear and terror.

Aussie bloke is that you?

I bet it would go something like this! Not a very small rock but a huge eruption. If we are lucky we could see the two moons of mars (Fear and Terror / Phobos and Deimos) get a little sister. We should call her Harpy ^^



Last Edited by Snuffielover on 02/25/2013 02:48 AM

Yes, the lack of a magnetic field would impact the long term outlook for any denser martian atmosphere, but not all at once barring a very massive event. The current rate of loss is estimated to be around 100 tons per day, but one of the goals of the MAVEN mission is to nail that number down to much higher accuracy.

for reasons you can not comprehend it will not happen...

Mars is what 1/2 the size of earth? If it gets hit, just shows how prone the earth is to the same cosmic treatment. Wonder if this is an Oort cloud object. With the recent earth sightings and multiple incoming potential super comets, beginning to think something perturbed the Oort cloud a few thousand years ago and the debris are just now reaching the inner solar system.

Maybe those saying 2012 was off a year were correct, because shit is getting concerning. At this rate Betelgeuse will go nova, a roaming black hole ejected from a galaxy collision will be on a earth bound crash course, or the higgs boson will decay to a lower energy state.

Hell at this rate, the comet will miss mars, but be gravitationally sling shotted right at Earth.

Yeah, doom......

so need a 3 day pin? you must really like taking it

Mars half the size of earth hahaha you serious

No, I'm just that awesome.

HOLY FUCKBALLS!

nibirus orbit is retrrograde

:Nibooboo:

Astro fk off, it won't hit.

The latest Minor Planet Ephemeris data suggests that an impact is unlikely, with a nominal pass of 0.015 AU (2,277,700 Km from Mars's surface).

If one of mars moons are taken out, what type of effect would that have on mars itself?

You know what? No. It probably won't hit, but I wouldn't be honest if I didn't show this because there IS a possibility that it could hit. The latest JPL data has the nominal orbit with a close approach distance of 0.0007 AU and minimum distance still 0. That's interesting enough for me to make a thread about it and do my own analysis. Don't like it? You can fuck right off yourself.

^This.

Wake the fuck up people.

Classic distraction.