Breaking: Massive New Object Moving Toward Earth Now? – Jupiter Struck in September

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(11 December 2012, 12:53)Scythe13 Wrote: I really think this will be non-event.

Odds are it will hit the ocean.

I've just done a big post about Playing the Numbers. There is a 70% chance it will hit the ocean (70% of our planets surface is water) and only a 30% chance it will hit land. So, odds are........1 in 3030 that it will hit earth, and then a 3 in 10 chance it will hit land. Which looks more like 1 in 9090 chance it will hit land. The UK is a small part of that land mass. So odds are more like 1 in 50'000 that the UK will be hit.

Non-event. But cool news, none-the-less.

just to add what would happen if it did hit and ocean, there will be a hell of a lot of displaced water so could lead to massive tides or even tidal waves. Increase in seas temperatures could impact the ecosystem or even alter the gulf stream or other ocean currents and totally change the environmental conditions of some big regions of the planet.

saying that it may need something bigger to do that

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big tides could lead to significant flooding too