Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars

December 21st, 2007 | Category: Tech Talk

Multiple users have written to tell us of an LA Times report that an asteroid may hit Mars on January 30th. The asteroid is roughly 160 feet across, and JPL-based researchers say that it will have a 1-in-75 chance of striking Mars. Those odds are very high for that type of event, and scientists are hoping to witness an impact of a similar scope

to the Tunguska catastrophe. From the LA Times: “Because scientists have never observed an asteroid impact — the closest thing being the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter — such a collision on Mars would produce a ’scientific bonanza,’ Chesley said.”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

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