Yep, Rich, that's my hope- I mentioned it. On Mar 1, 2013 9:13 AM, "Richard Tenney" <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hoping cameras from the orbiting craft could possibly record the impact (or shortly thereafter)...?
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Possible Mars comet collion 2014
Too, that date is nearly six months after opposition. Mars will be very small and far away. Even at opposition in 2014, it's only 15 arcseconds in diameter. Six months later in October, it will be 6 arcseconds, and probably not high enough for good seeing.
It would take one heckuva wallop to be visible at all, and then maybe only as a couple of single-pixel frames in a high-magnification video sequence. No visible dust plumes, no visible craters. We'll have to settle for what any operating Mars probes or Hubble can image and beam back home- which could be pretty amazing...don't get me wrong, if an impact happens, it's literally a world-shaking event- but at this early stage, I predict that even a direct hit on the earth-facing side almost certainly won't be an observable visual event for the amateur astronomer, so a lot of folks might be getting their hopes up for something as visually stunning through the eyepiece as SL-9 hitting Jupiter. It's not even going to be close.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com
wrote:
A number of posts about this on the Minor Planet Mailing List. Some posts are serious, some not so much. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/
Checked TheSky and found from here in N. Utah there'll only be a short window to observe Mars that evening:
Sun will set at 1841. Nautical dark at 1940. Astronomical dark at 2012.
Mars will set at 2145.
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