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Originally Posted by Mike Boggan
I am looking forward to seeing the aftermath of the impact, but it brings up a few questions.
It is a Comet, made from what, ice and maybe a few rocks.
1. The Comet is at absolute zero,(we have all seen what happens to objects frozen in liquid nitrogen). What will happen if it shatter's it.
2. Will the impactor, just make a crater in it, or will it go clean through it, blasting it apart.
3. Could this experiment knock it out of it's current orbit, bringing it into an Earth crossing orbit?
Mike
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Mike, orbit wont change, i was just being a smart ass (again)
its too big and going too fast - it will probably be just a flea bite to it. But as Greg said - no one has the slightest clue what will happen for sure
but it has probably banged into many bits of space rocks many times in its life already, and survived, its the sun and Jupiter that trashes comets the best
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Kearn