Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT: Smackdown on Mars!

Rosemaryr opened this issue on Dec 22, 2007 · 34 posts


staigermanus posted Sat, 22 December 2007 at 8:55 AM

Nasa article:

[http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news151.html

](http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news151.html)
isn't it funny, how that rock just recently passed us by and missed Earth, and now is heading for Mars.  They say if it misses Mars it'll be back in a few decades or years but no worries that time, too far for impact risks.

Apophis 2029/2036(39?) are more worrisome encounters.

[http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/apophis/

](http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/)they're awaiting more detailed observations and calculations to see if the 300-400m chunk is going to need a little bit of help for orbital correction so as to not hit us.