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

From: Marcin Cimala <marcin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:59:46 +0100
Message-ID: <FB031EBFCF6148598304A49F1F3863A8_at_meteorytf1cafb>

wow
That could be "something" to watch!
But Im affraid it could be end not only for Curiosity but also for mars
exploration for dozens of years if not more.
So I dont know if I like to see it or not :))

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Ensor" <graham.ensor at gmail.com>
To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:38 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible that comet will hit mars next year!!!


> 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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