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| 1875.1 | | HOO78C::ANDERSON | Green wellies is the life for me. | Thu Aug 26 1993 03:38 | 8 |
| >Has anyone else heard about this, and what the possible ramifications
>of this potential collision ?
Considering the point that Jupiter is a gas giant of around 88,000
miles in diameter I doubt if a comet striking it will make much
difference.
Jamie.
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| 1875.2 | other info | AIMTEC::FERRELL_L | | Thu Aug 26 1993 10:57 | 12 |
| re: base
This predicted event is discussed in the latest Scientific American.
The article includes a picture of the commet.
There is some discussion on this topic in :
UPSAR::SPACE - note 853
widget::UFOS - note 196
LF
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| 1875.3 | | PEKING::WARBURTONG | Is it herbal deficiency Doc??! | Thu Sep 02 1993 11:54 | 5 |
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Maybe it was the collision of a comet which caused the Red Spot ?
Warburtong
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| 1875.5 | I wanna see the instant replays 8-) | DELNI::JIMC | CHAOS - an org level higher than Digital | Thu Oct 21 1993 13:09 | 5 |
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I wonder if there is any chance of any of these fragments colliding with
anything orbiting Jupiter, especially the moons?
80)
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| 1875.7 | Fun Till Daddy Took The T-Bird Away | CXDOCS::TAVARES | Have Pen, Will Travel | Thu Feb 10 1994 16:16 | 3 |
| Given the typical hydrogen bomb yield :-), how many kilotons does that
come to? For extra credit, how many times over will that destroy the
Earth?
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| 1875.8 | a tense future in future tense | DWOVAX::STARK | Todd I. Stark | Mon Feb 14 1994 12:05 | 7 |
| re: .7,
|how many times over will that destroy the Earth?
Is that a dire prediction, or should I have read that as "hypothetically
_would_have_ destroyed the earth ?"
todd
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| 1875.9 | | CXDOCS::TAVARES | Have Pen, Will Travel | Tue Feb 15 1994 10:08 | 2 |
| Uh sorry, I meant hypothetically. I also meant "megatons" where I
wrote "kilotons."
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| 1875.10 | | HOO78C::ANDERSON | The Info Super Highway Patrol. | Tue Feb 15 1994 10:24 | 4 |
| I don't think that megatons would be much more useful than kilotons
when measuring the energy release of this collision.
Jamie.
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| 1875.11 | ? | CADSYS::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Tue Feb 15 1994 16:02 | 12 |
| RE: .10 (Jamie)
> I don't think that megatons would be much more useful than kilotons
> when measuring the energy release of this collision.
Not sure what you mean by "useful", Jamie, but megatons would be more
*convenient* for such a measurement (or, in this case, estimate).
Neither wouild be particularly helpful in imagining the magnitude of
the collision(s), of course, since such force is quite literally
unimaginable.
Topher
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| 1875.12 | | HOO78C::ANDERSON | The Info Super Highway Patrol. | Wed Feb 16 1994 01:37 | 14 |
| >Not sure what you mean by "useful", Jamie
When you have a long string of zeros does an extra three impress you
that much?
The energy release on a light summer shower is about the same as the
earlier atomic bombs. Even the mightiest of the present ones can not
equal the energy release of a major storm. Measuring against H-bombs a
hurricane would be off the scale. So when it comes to large comets
slamming into gas giants if you express the energy release in joules,
kilotons, or megatons it is not going to make a lot of difference as
the number will, as you say, be beyond our comprehension
Jamie.
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| 1875.13 | some non-scientific measurement terms | TNPUBS::PAINTER | Planet Crayon | Wed Feb 16 1994 10:47 | 4 |
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Humongous, totally awesome.....etc.
Cindy
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| 1875.16 | | TNPUBS::PAINTER | Planet Crayon | Mon Apr 04 1994 17:07 | 7 |
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Any comments on the potential astrological impacts of the comet
on Jupiter (and subsequently on us)?
Does anyone have an update on when exactly the comet will strike?
Cindy
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| 1875.17 | collision course | SALEM::BOUTHILLIER | | Tue Apr 05 1994 10:39 | 7 |
| re:16 July 7th is the latest date I read for this event.Astrologically
any effect seems unknown, however Jupiter is always associated with
positive happenings?
Rog
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