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I was wondering when Earth gets such a comet. There was another giant
comet (Shoemaker) which impacted into Jupiter in the past. We get meteors on Earth. The comet came so fast and hit Jupiter, nobody knew about what it was or where it came from. It was as big as Darth Vader's death star. Probably most comets in our solarf system are not even known about as they can't be seen or detected. Say it would not hit Jupiter, but barely miss it, and Jupiter would throw it straight toward Earth. We wouldn't see it coming until hours before impact.Or if such a thing hits the Moon, so much debris would rise into space that we would get a million of those meteors where just one killed the dinosaurs. |
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