Seems to be getting
a bit busy....Up There
Oct 2014
The comet will pass.....
extremely close..... to Mars on 19 October 2014.
Initial observations by Leonid Elenin on 27 February 2013, suggested the comet might pass at just.... 0.000276 AU
- only ..
41,300 km ......from the center-point of Mars.
( For comparison, Mars' outer moon Deimos orbits ......
23,500 km) from the planet.
The resulting upper limit energy.....
of impact
- could reach.....
20 billion megatons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1
Looks like the "Chance" of the 20 BILLION MEGATONS ...IMPACT
- has reduced.... from 1 : 2000
- to only ......1: 120,000
Estimates for the diameter of the nucleus have varied from.... 1 to 50 km
No doubt further ....."Estimates" of size, "Chances" and "Odds...of impact"
- will be forthcoming....nearer the time.
The NASA - comet ISON....has broken up
- oops - no sorry... something....has made it round the sun
- and erm ....we are working on it
- And...Comet C1/2013 A1 ??
- well it could be just 1Km....then again it could be 50 x bigger
- and yes last time we thought the chance of 20 billion Megaton impact was 2,000 : 1
but now we reckon it could be 120,000 : 1
- Did we actually spot it....no actually we didn't spot that one either....it was a bloke called by Robert H. McNaught
- using a 20 iinch telescope.
Yes
- if anybody in their garden shed with a £99-99 Argos telescope spots anything with a "20 Billion Megaton Impact" potential.....somewhere around these neck of the woods
- then please please... give us a call here at the ....(Trillions of dollars hardware up there & down 'ere)......
- NASA guessing dept
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All very reassuring stuff
( Reassuring - as in Stella Artois...all very reassuringly...expensive :o)
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Anyway must get back to the BBC Breakfast News.....
- the sexual politics of "Pantomime" principal boy who are girls, and Dames who are men.
- followed by....the second pair of vocal chords a ...male Koala Bear....using in it's verl vocal.....mating call
- and some bloke ....on the couch.... promoting & plugging...... his latest tour
......Beckons