[meteorite-list] Possible that comet will hit mars next year!!!

[drtanuki]

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 <graham.ensor at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor at gmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible that comet will hit mars next year!!!
> To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> 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
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