Would that be cool or what???? Thanks for the post...perhaps could re-direct to the Moon by accident of error? A new lunarmeteorite would arrive faster than a Martian. Best Regards, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
--- On Wed, 2/27/13, Graham Ensor <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Graham Ensor <[email protected]> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible that comet will hit mars next year!!! > To: "meteorite list" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 9:38 PM > Has anyone come across this > yet...unlikely....but would be quite an event? > > Just got this message from my nephew at Oxford Uni... > > "There is a (admittedly slight) chance that a recently > discovered > comet, C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), might be on a collision > course with > Mars in October 2014. Latest observations certainly include > an impact > possibility within the range of error. > > If it hits, estimates suggest a 500km wide, 2km deep crater > arising > from a ~20 Petaton event. That's something like 4 million > times the > (estimated) explosive power of the current global nuclear > arsenal. > > Would be interesting to watch and see if any of the rovers > on the > surface manage to survive such an impact (I would imagine > only > possibly Curiosity but keeping lines of communication open > with it > might prove difficult). Might make for (eventually, but not > in our > lifetimes) some interesting future Martian meteorites." > > > http://www.universetoday.com/100298/is-a-comet-on-a-collision-course-with-mars/ > > Graham > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
