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said.
"^Hublcsaid the best time tocatch
a glimpse of the comet’s collision
from Lincoln skies would be July
16 at about 9:46 p.m. and July 22
at about 10:45 p.m., give or take 28
minutes. The best view of the col
lision will come from the Galileo
spacecraft and should be televised
on CNN and NASA Select chan
nels, he said.
“(Scientists) have never been
able to be aware of something like
this before,” he said. “Scientists
will be watching this one to see
what happens when you have some
thing of this size and force hitting
a member of the solar system.”
“They’ll be thinking ‘Wow,
what if it would have been closer to
Earth?”’
So what if a comet would hit the
Earth? Although Jupiter is not a
rock planet like Earth, the colli
sion will give scientists an oppor
tunity to witness from a safe point
of view what could really happen.
“Ilwouldbc devastating,” Huble
said. “You get something coming
in at 60 kilometers per second and
it stops suddenly, it will fuse the
surrounding ground, send shock
waves and airwaves away from it
and probably knock everything
down.
“The heat blast would be very
intense and would rival our largest
nuclear explosion.”
But the chances of this happen
ing are slim, Huble said. There arc
240,000 miles between the Earth
and the moon. For a comet to hit
the Earth it would have to be dead
on target and the slightest deflec
tion would cause it to miss the
Earth by miles, Huble said.
“It’s so slim I’d never go out
and buy insurance for it,” he said,
laughing.
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