Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

PV wrote:
> Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> You can't do the math to get a meaningful answer. It would depend on
>> the angles and velocity of the approach. Nearly anything could
>> happen,
>
> You gotta figure that any star material entering our solar system
> would be going FAST.

Depends on what it interacted with along the way, mainly outside our
solar system, and by that I mean other stars, which might have slowed it
down, absorbed some of its mass, or even sped it up.



>> from ejecting us from the solar system, or turn us into a comet, or
>> toss us into the sun, or just swallow the planet becoming a slightly
>> larger white dwarf and crashing into the sun.
>
> In other words, nothing even vaguely survivable, right. *

If it hit the moon, as the movie would have it, no.


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