Nudge a giant asteroid so it crashes into mars

Posted by PM_ME_LIGMA_JOKES@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 12 comments

It’d be cool to see

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DarkArcher__@reddit

This is a genuine terraforming proposal, btw. It's speculated that the energy of a colision with an asteroid high enough in ice content might give Mars some bodies of liquid water

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w33ni3hutjr@reddit

I’d love to read about this. Do you have any links?

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There's a good few proposals around this whole asteroid idea. The wikipedia page for Mars terraforming has a mention of using it to thicken the atmosphere, but here's one that's specifically about using ice asteroids to create bodies of water.

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Imajzineer@reddit

r/Showerthoughts -->

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Turbulent-Name-8349@reddit

It can be done, move your asteroid into what is called a Kirkwood Gap. This is a band in the asteroid belt where orbits are destabilized by the mass of Jupiter, throwing them out of the asteroid belt.

It's not a rapid process, but effective, and with plenty of time for fine control of the trajectory.

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