Large comet to ram into Mars in 2014

[Soliti Profile]

http://english.pravda.ru/news/science/2 ... s_comet-0/

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.

[Malogg Profile]

Thata gonna be awesome ta see ,canni wait


Bye bye nasa rovers maybe FFS

[Iwanci Profile]

What 'if' it misses and comes to us????

[Soliti Profile]

Thata gonna be awesome ta see ,canni wait


Bye bye nasa rovers maybe FFS

It will be a great sight!!! Not trying to be all doom and gloom but my concern would be what will be thrown in space from this and does it pose a risk to us here from the debris?

[WillEase666 Profile]

This will NOT happen according to current information on the NASA JPL site. In order for an object to collide with a planet etc, it needs to be exactly on the ecliptic when it crosses paths with that planet etc. This comet will be exactly on the ecliptic on the date of October 18th, 2014. It does not cross paths with Mars until October 20th, 2014 when it is already ABOVE the ecliptic. I'm not certain the power of Mars' gravity to suck this comet in so to speak, but there will be NO direct hit according to the JPL orbital diagram.

JPL Small-Body Database Browser
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C ... ;cad=1#orb

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I am wondering if it does hit Mars where does all the debri end up?

[RATRODROB Profile]

hey SHAGGIE i dunno where the debri would end up if it did hit mars, but it would be great if a little chunk landed in me back yard so i could sell it and pay of my loan for my home extension, then i would be free of the chains holding me to the fuktard banker system

[Toxic32 Profile]

If it hits Mar's then NASA would pissed off. The loss of Mar's Curiosity and the Mar's rovers and maybe the Mar's Express as well as the Mar' Reconnaissance Orbiter would be an expensive and tragic loss.

On the other hand if it is on a collision course then I'm sure the local alien alien's based on Mar's will do what is necessary to destroy or deflect it before it becomes a real threat to their cities and basses on mar's.

Should be interesting keeping a close eye on it, to see if it suddenly blows up or changes it's course in any way. I wonder how the worlds astronomers would explain that. Well lets give them a start.

This comet must have been loose collection of small participial held together with dust and and ice. So as it got closer to the sun it came under the influence of the suns gravity. It's mass became unstable and the pressure of gas building up inside it caused it to explode?

Or the small objects seen buzzing around it just before it exploded must have been parts of the comet that had broken loose.

Or we can't explain what looked like an energy beam coming from the object that passed close by the comet just before it changed course. But we have always found.....Look at the video for that answer. And be sure to keep an eye on expression as he comes to the end of this press interview.

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Other links you might want to look at.

http://www.space.com/16871-how-big-is-mars.html
http://io9.com/5019914/biggest-crater-in-the-solar-system-found-on-mars

[Spectrum25 Profile]

This is one mans view I found interesting



Subject: Mother Nature Preparing A New Home For Mankind?

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-comet-collision-mars.html

If this comet does collide with Mars next year, the massive impact
crater formed would eject much material into the planet's atmosphere
and in space - with more samples from the surface of Mars falling to
Earth for us to study for free, saving us the cost of a multi-billion
dollar sample return mission to Mars a couple of decades from now.

A collision by such a large comet would also greatly alter the
climate on Mars naturally terraforming the planet so that it actually
becomes more hospitable for human habitation! Could Mother Nature
soon have a second home in our solar system ready for us to colonize?
With plans by many countries and private groups to send the first
humans to live on Mars in this generation, the increased surface
temperatures, thicker atmosphere and new seas of liquid water on Mars
created by such a comet collision in 2014 couldn't happen at a better
time in human history...

Source: http://ufoupdateslist.com/2013/mar/m01-002.shtml

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This computer graphic depicts the orbit of comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) through the inner solar system. On Oct. 19, 2014, it is expected to pass within 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) of Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October 2014.

The latest trajectory of comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) generated by the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., indicates the comet will pass within 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) of Mars and there is a strong possibility that it might pass much closer. The NEO Program Office's current estimate based on observations through March 1, 2013, has it passing about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) from the Red Planet's surface. That distance is about two-and-a-half times that of the orbit of outermost moon, Deimos.

Scientists generated the trajectory for comet Siding Spring based on the data obtained by observations since October 2012. Further refinement to its orbit is expected as more observational data is obtained. At present, Mars lies within the range of possible paths for the comet and the possibility of an impact cannot be excluded. However, since the impact probability is currently less than one in 600, future observations are expected to provide data that will completely rule out a Mars impact.

During the close Mars approach the comet will likely achieve a total visual magnitude of zero or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. From Earth, the comet is not expected to reach naked eye brightness, but it may become bright enough (about magnitude 8) that it could be viewed from the southern hemisphere in mid-September 2014, using binoculars, or small telescopes.

Scientists at the Near-Earth Object Program Office estimate that comet Siding Spring has been on a more than a million-year journey, arriving from our solar system's distant Oort cloud. The comet could be complete with the volatile gases that short period comets often lack due to their frequent returns to the sun's neighborhood.

Rob McNaught discovered comet 2013 A1 Siding Spring on Jan. 3, 2013, at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. A study of germane archival observations has unearthed more images of the comet, extending the observation interval back to Oct. 4, 2012.

NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.

JPL manages the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch . More information about asteroid radar research is at: http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/ . More information about the Deep Space Network is at: http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn .


DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle@jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov