{"id":1032,"date":"2013-03-09T06:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2013-03-09T06:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T06:54:21","slug":"the-comet-threat-to-mars-stopping-a-comet-heading-for-earth-2013-planetary-defense-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"The Comet threat to Mars + Stopping a comet heading for Earth + 2013 Planetary Defense Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Boyle writes about the possibility that Comet 2013 A1<\/a> (aka Comet Siding Spring) might hit Mars and how this might affect attitudes on earth about the threat of comet and asteroid impacts on earth: ‘Marsageddon’ comet scenario adds to concerns about threats from space – Cosmic Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also discusses the writeup – Warning Shots – Space Access Update #130 – 3\/4\/13<\/a>, by Henry Vanderbilt of the Space Access Society<\/a>, on whether we could prevent such a cometary hit if we only had two years of warning.<\/p>\n

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Michale Belfiore points to the 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference<\/a>, 15-19 April, 2013 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, where such issues will be discussed: Planetary Defense Conference 2013 – Michael Belfiore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Boyle writes about the possibility that Comet 2013 A1 (aka Comet Siding Spring) might hit Mars and how this might affect attitudes on earth about the threat of comet and asteroid impacts on earth: ‘Marsageddon’ comet scenario adds to concerns about threats from space – Cosmic Log. He also discusses the writeup – Warning … Continue reading The Comet threat to Mars + Stopping a comet heading for Earth + 2013 Planetary Defense Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-gE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8841,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8841","url_meta":{"origin":1032,"position":0},"title":"Comet flyby of Mars unlikely to damage orbiters","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like the pass of the comet Siding Spring by Mars on October 19th will not in fact bring along\u00a0a dust cloud of fast moving particles thick enough to damage the spacecraft orbiting the planet: By the middle of this summer, published estimates (based on new images and additional modelling)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Asteroids & Comets"","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids & Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"Comet C\/2013 A1 Siding Spring seen on 6 September 2014 from Argentina. 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