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

Finally, some legitimate doom (on another planet) that doesn't rely on misinfo and cherry picked information

Doc,

Any estimation as to the EMP that kind of.collision would generate? And any idea of the effects it would have here?

LOL!

The way I heard you say "You can fuck right off..." in my head, was the same way this old lady said "Well you can just fuck right off!" to 2 mormons who knocked on her door in the movie Orgazmo (by the same guys who created South Park)

LOL!

a planet never gets knocked off orbit

Well it is thought that the SL-9 collision did generate an electromagnetic radiation outburst ( [link to link.springer.com] ) but the mechanism of such an event on mars would different due to the effective absence of a magnetic field. Nevertheless, if the gamma radiation generated during the explosion through bremsstrahlung and inverse compton processes at Jupiter as the above article suggests also applies to the martian atmosphere, then compton recoil electrons from the gamma rays hitting molecules in the martian atmosphere will indeed generate a current and some degree of EMP. It won't be knocking out power on earth though if that's what you mean.

Last Edited by Astromut on 02/26/2013 12:04 AM

Thanks for sharing your wonderful work!

50+ km/sec potential head on collision with mars a commet?

FUCKING BOOOOOOOOOM

wasnt the rock that hit then 15 km large? I know it's energy was about 100 million megatons

but i assume it's speed was much lower, about 17km/s..compared to this mars rock that is over 50kms


all i know is i hope when it hits, that it hits the side we can see on mars. Will have my 8 in SCT out to record with my webcam

Just did some sleuthing, in respect to Emperor Kenton.

The following link says that after Shoemaker-Levy 9 disintegrated "At least 21 major fragments were originally identified" and that "Reasonable assumptions about the spatial distribution of the grains and about the reflectivity of the nuclei imply sizes of 2 to 4 km (diameter) for each of the 11 brightest nuclei..."

[link to archive.seds.org]

So according to that report, the biggest fragment of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that hit Jupiter was 4 km in diameter.

According to several reports, the comet that might hit Mars has a core of at least 50km.

Or twelve times bigger than the biggest fragment that hit Jupiter.

Another perspective, the distance between Boston and NYC is 300 km, so the comet that might his Mars has a diameter of about 1/6th the distance between Boston and NYC.

The above link refers to a Mars impact that "would rival those that occurred at the dawn of the solar system." The planets including Earth have been mopping up those early solar system collisions for eons, with events that may have caused extinction level events on Earth.

The eccentric orbit of Mars brings it closer to the Earth than any other planet at 35 million miles.

The Asteroid belt which most all meteorites are believed to come from begins about 90 million miles from Earth and spans about 120 million miles wide.

So Mars can be about 3 times closer to Earth than the closest part of the asteroid belt.

An object with a diameter of 50,000 meters hitting the planet that comes closest to Earth, there seems little doubt that this will kick up debris in our direction.

Bad news for Mars, but potentially worse news for humanity here on Earth. It takes us a year to swing around the Sun, so rough guess a year to a year and a half, we could be feeling the repercussions of this on Earth.

And there's nothing anyone can do to stop it!

lol yes

phobos is nothing more than an asteroid that got caught in orbit around mars.

its only 11.1km in dia

lol

An event like this would mean a halt to robotic exploration of the surface, as the entire planet would have to be re-imaged in detail for new landing sites.

Gonna suck to be a microbe on Mars

depends where it hits, if it hits within close range, the poor rover is toast. Would see a brilliant flash, then feed is dead

if it's a thousand miles away, could be interesting, but would still suffer damage i would think


this thing will cause a 12.5 mag quake 600 miles from impact, from doing the online impact calculations

I'll posit this scenario.

Mars gets hit with an comet with a diameter 1/6th the distance between Boston and NYC (50km), as is projected.

The impact which rivals those of the early solar system kicks up a slowly expanding field of debris.

And just like with the numerous recurring meteor showers, like the Leonids, and the Orionids, and the Perseids, when the Earth passes through that region of space, the meteoric debris rains down.

If this impact happens, there will be an annual rain of destruction as the Earth passes through this region of space.

Until the entirety of civilization is destroyed...

And so it begins...

Sure, but you need to consider how REALLY far away Mars is. Debris from a Martian impact is not going to magically appear in Earths orbit. It would spread slowly away from Mars and most of it would get caught in orbit around Mars or in Mars' orbit.

Bingo!!!

Ezekiel 38:22
And I will plead against him with pestilence, and with blood, and I will cause to rain upon him and upon his bands, and upon the great people that are with him, a sore rain, and hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormy tempest; this is the portion of their cup.

Isaiah 34:9
And the rivers thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall be burning pitch.

Revelation 9:18
Of these three was the third part of men killed, that is, of the fire, and of the smoke, and of the brimstone, which came out of their mouths.


Shit just got real, people.

List of meteorites found on Earth identified as originating from the planet Mars-

[link to www2.jpl.nasa.gov]

Quite a few, with a major one discovered just last year.

These have all believed to have arrived here as asteroid collisions with the planet Mars, which blasted off debris, arriving here on terra firma.

Not to mention the conseqeunces of an impact on Mars which rivals those of the early solar system.

If it hits, you might want to consider an early withdrawl from your 401K. Because otherwise, it might not be around for you to see it

An update from a real astronomer...chance of impact is increasing. [link to astroblogger.blogspot.com.au]

They're not. They are hard and solid. Listen to McCanney on this one. Very few are amalgamations of dust and ice.

Comets carry an electrical charge and the tail is an expression of the electrical field. Look at stuff from Talbot - electrical universe.

Dr. Astro is a real astronomer, he just doesn't get paid for it. His analysis is just as good as a real astronomer.

Three visable comets this year and a collision with Mars next year.

We seem to be getting more space traffic. What are the chances that the solar system is moving into somekind of asteroid field, or vice versa?

Keep in mind that asteroid fields aren't like what is depicted in Star Wars, they can be many miles apart.

RIP Emperor Kenton..he was a very intelligent and a great human being.
Now he has a bird's eye view of our galaxy from heaven.

yes he is a very active star man....
he even works on GRB's

What was the time span between the collision that launched a Martian rock into space, and when that rock got to Earth? Even if the cometary collision happens, we (on Earth) are not going to be getting any of the debris for a long time.

hmmmm

that isn't good. if this thing impacts Mars I will be surprised if we get off scot free. there will be thousands of huge lumps of mars thrown off the planet, and some of them are BOUND to impact us!

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Meteorites from Mars have been found on Earth.


" How Did They Get Here?


The only natural process capable of launching martian rocks to Earth
is meteorite impact. Mars’ surface has numerous impact craters of
various sizes and ages. To be ejected from Mars, a rock must reach
the escape velocity of 5.4 km/sec, which is more than five times the
muzzle velocity of a hunting rifle. An impact capable of ejecting the
martian meteorites would have left a crater 10-100 km across. "


ares.jsc.nasa.gov/ares/education/FactSheets/metsfrommars.pdf
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