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Space cataclysm planned by astronomers on October 19 2014 year. True, the closest neighbor of our planet will be attacked – Mars, and the only victim may be only a rover Curiosity The fact is that on this day at 04:20 GMT in 100 thousand kilometers from the center of Mars will rush comet C / 2013 A1. The diameter of this celestial body is about 50 kilometers, and in in the event of a collision, about 20 billion megatons of energy will be released TNT equivalent and a crater diameter of approximately 500 kilometers. This event is truly unique. According to calculations scientists, asteroids attack Mars approximately every thousand years. A the only case of a collision of large celestial bodies in the historical era was the fall of comet Shoemakers – Levy on Jupiter in July 1994 But the point of falling fragments was at opposite to the Earth’s hemisphere, therefore visual observations were carried out only by the Galileo apparatus. As a result cataclysm in the atmosphere of a giant planet has a dark spot sizes close to the diameter of the Earth, and the energy of the explosion is 750 times exceeded the capacity of the entire nuclear potential accumulated by humanity.
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