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727Sky
reply to post by nighthawk1954
Thank you for posting: One day we will get hit...just a matter of time... If the governments of the world actually cared about earth and it's people they would be working diligently on a defense; not just some paper exercise. Maybe they are and I am not seeing the whole picture... Helps to find them first and compute the orbits, I know.... However if tomorrow they found something like our 11 mile friend was going to impact in two or three months (year or two?) it is my understanding we just bend over and kiss our butts goodbye... Piss poor prior planning IMO especially when an extinction event like an impact of that magnitude is a real possibility.
They say a potential impact is extremely unlikely:
TDawgRex
reply to post by nighthawk1954
By near earth does that mean we cross paths sometimes? By skirting, does that mean no chance of hitting us?
Waiting for Electric universe/Electric comet proponents to post that 100 billion tons of water means it actually has no water at all and comets are all completely dry, in 3, 2, 1....
The implications have less to do with a potential impact, which is extremely unlikely in this case, and more with “the origins of water on Earth,” Trilling said. Impacts with comets like Don Quixote over geological time may be the source of at least some of it, and the amount on Don Quixote represents about 100 billion tons of water — roughly the same amount that can be found in Lake Tahoe, California.
Not likely but debris from Mars wouldn't get here any time soon anyway.
An impact event on Mars can fling a load our way as well...
Maybe a very faint one.
Maybe even create a ring around mars...
AbleEndangered
reply to post by Phage
I think Mars is going to get Pummeled!
Even a glance with the tail will be harsh.
51,000 Miles, 1/5th from Earth to moon.
AbleEndangered
Yeah, maybe its nothing, Jupiter took it like a champ...