It's interesting to speculate on the effect a second massive, observed planetary impact in 15 years (or 3 in 100, if you count Tunguska) would have on policy makers. One might expect that it would redouble investment in the search for, and technologies for dealing with, PHAs.

One might hope that even the most rabid catastrophe-deniers among the political elite would be encouraged to act... but then, maybe I'm still on a Happy Hangover from an excessive Christmas Lunch ;-)

M

Francis Graham wrote:

  If it DOES hit Mars, I wonder what observations
visual amateur astronomers can make of it? I think if
it kicks up a dust storm that should be easy to see.

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