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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on February 25, 2013, 04:33:13 pm

Title: Step 1 in Terraforming Mars
Post by: Nemesis on February 25, 2013, 04:33:13 pm

Link to full article (http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/could-a-comet-hit-mars-in-2014-130225.htm)

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According to preliminary orbital prediction models, comet C/2013 A1 will buzz Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. The icy interloper is thought to originate from the Oort Cloud — a hypothetical region surrounding the solar system containing countless billions of cometary nuclei that were outcast from the primordial solar system billions of years ago.