Potential Epic Comet Collision with Mars in 2014 *UPDATE: VIDEO ON FIRST POST* | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 300487 Romania 02/25/2013 07:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back in the days of Shoemaker the word was that collisions like this were so rare it would need to be a very arrogant person to claim he will see one during his lifetime. Then Shoemaker impact occurred. Combine the odds for a scientist of this era to see 2 collisions of this kind! Another important aspect is that Mars have been hit in the past (?) and probably lost his habitable environment because of it so for the planet to be in dangerous path is not a surprise. Having 2 major planets of the sol system suffering a huge impact within 30 years (which is really nothing in astrophysics) tells something about our system being so vulnerable it is only a matter of time (not so much) for Earth to be next. Perhaps the whole system is in a dangerous space area and that explains the coincidence of so many rare events occurring in such a short time frame. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35134011 United States 02/25/2013 07:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a diversion to take attention away from the "lens flare" Thread: Large UNIDENTIFIED object approaching EARTH ~ Visible NOW on Stereo Ahead HI1 ~ IS it THIS Blue object NOW VISIBLE in our skies?? Just like DA14 was a diversion to take your attention off of the "cosmic coincidence" that hit Russia on February 15th. You re just pissed because Astromut debunked your arse. Sorry, he didn't debunk anything. He simply stated his opinion. Let's not conflate opinion with fact. |
Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 33360181 United States 02/25/2013 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a diversion to take attention away from the "lens flare" Thread: Large UNIDENTIFIED object approaching EARTH ~ Visible NOW on Stereo Ahead HI1 ~ IS it THIS Blue object NOW VISIBLE in our skies?? Just like DA14 was a diversion to take your attention off of the "cosmic coincidence" that hit Russia on February 15th. You re just pissed because Astromut debunked your arse. Sorry, he didn't debunk anything. He simply stated his opinion. Let's not conflate opinion with fact. Yes, I did. Now, stop derailing the thread. |
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Ozi dude User ID: 35120289 Australia 02/25/2013 07:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a diversion to take attention away from the "lens flare" Thread: Large UNIDENTIFIED object approaching EARTH ~ Visible NOW on Stereo Ahead HI1 ~ IS it THIS Blue object NOW VISIBLE in our skies?? Just like DA14 was a diversion to take your attention off of the "cosmic coincidence" that hit Russia on February 15th. You re just pissed because Astromut debunked your arse. Sorry, he didn't debunk anything. He simply stated his opinion. Let's not conflate opinion with fact. Well that is a matter of opinion. And mine is that he debunked your arse bad. real bad. I think if you check you'll still be bleeding. You might want to get that looked at. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31036137 United States 02/25/2013 07:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Interesting how the attention is directed far into the future, meanwhile you should be looking right in front of you. Very clever Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18713240 ^This. Wake the fuck up people. Classic distraction. Man, you Obamanauts are really TV Twisted these days. It is not important who does the distracting. Just as long as you are not distracted. You gonna blame a pretty women for having a sexy ass when it distracts you from your driving? What about the common distraction from cell phones, texting while driving? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35134200 Taiwan 02/25/2013 07:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. According to scientists, a catastrophe of global scale may occur on Mars. The trajectory of comet C/2013 A1, which Australian astronomers discovered in early 2013, will supposedly intersect with Mars. If it happens, the impact will produce an explosion, the power of which will be equivalent to 20 billion megatons of TNT. The forecast is based on current measurements and will be updated as new data arrive. It was said that the comet was moving in the direction opposite to the planets of the solar system. Therefore, the speed in the possible impact will be very high - about 56 kilometers per second. The core of the comet is 50 kilometers large. A crater with the diameter of 500 kilometers may thus be formed on the crash site. [link to english.pravda.ru] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30314702 Australia 02/25/2013 08:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One of the questions I want to answer with my analysis is, would there still be a rover? How big is it? will it melt off the surface and recause a "Iron Catastrophy" then restart the magnetosphere in time making mars once again habital? Not THAT big. Hard to say exactly this early on, but we're talking about something potentially as much as 2 orders of magnitude more powerful than the chicxulub event. 2 orders of magnitude !! really !! That event wiped off life on earth !!!! well at least the dinos! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30314702 Australia 02/25/2013 08:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Large comet to ram into Mars in 2014 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35134200 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. According to scientists, a catastrophe of global scale may occur on Mars. The trajectory of comet C/2013 A1, which Australian astronomers discovered in early 2013, will supposedly intersect with Mars. If it happens, the impact will produce an explosion, the power of which will be equivalent to 20 billion megatons of TNT. The forecast is based on current measurements and will be updated as new data arrive. It was said that the comet was moving in the direction opposite to the planets of the solar system. Therefore, the speed in the possible impact will be very high - about 56 kilometers per second. The core of the comet is 50 kilometers large. A crater with the diameter of 500 kilometers may thus be formed on the crash site. [link to english.pravda.ru] damn... I wonder what would we do if they discover one about to hit us in one year frrm now :( Probably we cant do anything |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31869061 Canada 02/25/2013 08:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually, a giant comet disintegrated 18,000 years ago and caused the great ice age. the remnants of it are still floating around us and cause the seasonal meteor showers and periodic bigger impcts. Bigger chunks of it have struck the earth and are associated with the sumerian collapse (2200 BC) and the collapse of the roman empire (500 AD). Since the renaissance, five strikes have occured and have coincided with wars and upheaveal. These strikes seem to occur between every 100-200 years. Perhaps we are now in a period of increased fireballs. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31869061 the above info according to a scientist who wrote a report for oxford university. His last name is Clube, and the report is named something like Periodic Hazard of Fireballs. this should be the report [link to www.dtic.mil] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9258462 United States 02/25/2013 08:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | and mars got virtually no atmosphere; it means no slowing down if impact, this shit need to be filmed if it occurs, will be one of the most doomish video ever recorded for sure Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35088492 ty for the info astro !! ***** ground level video from the Mars rover would be amazing The Yucatan crater impact created a temporary mountain of molten Earth three times higher than Mount Everest. |
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pstrusi User ID: 35038880 Spain 02/25/2013 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hi Dr. Astro I'd like to know what possible object could be this in the following video according to your knowledge. It's a long video but very quickly you can look several pictures and videos from the Volcan Turrialba, which makes me wondering about it. I've been trying to do my little research a couple astronomical software but it doesn't seem any known planet or moon. Here the video: [link to www.youtube.com] Thanks pstrusi |
Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 33360181 United States 02/25/2013 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hi Dr. Astro Quoting: pstrusi I'd like to know what possible object could be this in the following video according to your knowledge. It's a long video but very quickly you can look several pictures and videos from the Volcan Turrialba, which makes me wondering about it. I've been trying to do my little research a couple astronomical software but it doesn't seem any known planet or moon. Here the video: [link to www.youtube.com] Thanks Lens flare. [link to i319.photobucket.com] It can be seen appearing in front of clouds, it forms a straight line, and it always points back towards the sun. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30665644 United States 02/25/2013 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back in the days of Shoemaker the word was that collisions like this were so rare it would need to be a very arrogant person to claim he will see one during his lifetime. Then Shoemaker impact occurred. Combine the odds for a scientist of this era to see 2 collisions of this kind! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300487 Another important aspect is that Mars have been hit in the past (?) and probably lost his habitable environment because of it so for the planet to be in dangerous path is not a surprise. Having 2 major planets of the sol system suffering a huge impact within 30 years (which is really nothing in astrophysics) tells something about our system being so vulnerable it is only a matter of time (not so much) for Earth to be next. Perhaps the whole system is in a dangerous space area and that explains the coincidence of so many rare events occurring in such a short time frame. Totally agree. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2497831 United States 02/25/2013 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm working on my own analysis of the comet's orbit and the potential risk right now, but in the meantime since word is starting to get around about this I wanted to go ahead and make the thread to put this out there. Hat tip to Dr. Ian Musgrave: Quoting: Dr. Astro [link to astroblogger.blogspot.com] Now, it's important to point out that we don't know the orbit well enough yet to know if it will hit or not. It could make a very close pass to Mars, or it could collide. We just don't know yet. I'm currently running my own analysis to try to determine the level of risk. If it hits though (which would be on October 19th, 2014), the impact will be tremendous. This comet is on a retrograde orbit, traveling the opposite direction of the planets, so a head-on collision would be in excess of 50 km/sec. That's very, very high. Minimum distance of the approach is currently sitting at 0 on JPL's site, maximum distance is at 0.00794 AU. [link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov] It would be a very, very bad day to be a martian if this thing hits. Stop fear mongering. It won't even come within 500,000 km. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35061223 United States 02/25/2013 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Very cool! This may be a stupid question, but is there any way we would be able to witness this from Earth? Through a telescope perhaps? Quoting: Petyermouse Thanks for all of your threads on here, I always enjoy reading them and appreciate your cosmic insight. 5 stars and karma. Hi Dr Astro. I'm thinking you missed this ^^^ post. But, I would also like to know. Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work. |
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