What if Mercury collide with Mars?

The answer, of course, is unknown, but two new studies suggest a collision with Mercury or Mars could doom life long before the Sun swells into a red giant and bakes the planet to a crisp in about 5 billion years.
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What if Mercury collide with Earth?

Such an impact would kill all life on our planet. Nothing would survive. By contrast, the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was likely just 6 miles in diameter; Mercury is 3,032 miles across. The last time an object about that size hit the Earth, the resulting debris formed our Moon.
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Is Mercury friendly with Mars?

Let us tell you that Sun and Venus are the friends for Mercury planet while Mars, Guru and Saturn are neutral, ie they give normal result. Speaking about moon, it is the enemy for Mercury. According to this rule, you can keep things of Mercury comfortable with those of Sun and Venus as they will benefit you.
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What happens if Earth collides with Mars?

The atmospheres of both planets would be compressed together and glow brightly. It would get so hot that everything on the side of the Earth about to get hit would instantly vaporize. For the rest of the Earth, the ground would become scorching magma. The collision would cause friction between the two planets.
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What would happen if 2 planets collided?

If the cores collide at an angle then the planets may or may not merge, but in all cases a large amount of the gaseous envelope will be lost. Very oblique collisions do not disrupt the planets at all and both would continue on almost the same orbits without losing any mass.
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What if Jupiter hit Saturn?

If Jupiter and Saturn collided, they would begin to merge. Their atmospheres would mix. That would raise the temperatures in the top layers of the gas giant's atmosphere. It would get so hot that Jupiter would experience a chemical reaction, gaining more iron, silicates and even water.
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What if Earth had rings?

At the equator, the rings would appear to divide the sun, casting a dramatic shadow over half the world. Likewise, the rings themselves would cast shadows on Earth.
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What planet will crash into Earth?

A new study finds reduced odds for collisions with Mercury, Venus, or Mars. One day, Mercury could slam into Earth, obliterating all life on our planet. That's a doomsday scenario scientists have said is a small but real possibility.
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What if the Moon hit Mars?

As we know, planets and moon's generate no light on their own. Instead, they merely reflect sunlight that hits them directly. Therefore, if Luna was replaced with Mars, then it's likely that there would be more light visible at night. It would make it all the more eerie if it put a red tint on the night time landscape.
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What is the strongest planet in the world?

Jupiter's gargantuan magnetic field is the strongest of all the planets in the solar system, at nearly 20,000 times the strength of Earth's, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder (opens in new tab).
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Will Mercury hit the Sun?

So, Mercury is unlikely to fall into the Sun. In about 6 billion years time, the Sun will run out of Hydrogen fuel in its core. At this stage the Sun will expand into a red giant. As the Sun expands it will consume Mercury, Venus and possibly the Earth.
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What if Mercury had a Moon?

Mercury and Venus

Any moon would most likely crash into Mercury or maybe go into orbit around the Sun and eventually get pulled into it. Why Venus doesn't have a moon is a mystery for scientists to solve.
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What if Earth crashed into Jupiter?

As we crash into Jupiter, both planets' atmospheres will be compressed, rapidly increasing the temperature, and essentially setting the air on fire.
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Will the sun ever burn out?

Astronomers estimate that the sun has about 7 billion to 8 billion years left before it sputters out and dies. One way or another, humanity may well be long gone by then.
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What will happen to Earth in 2022?

Largest asteroid to approach Earth in 2022 will zoom past our planet this week. A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close to our planet in 2022.
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Will the Earth hit the sun?

Finally, the most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.
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What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning for 42 seconds?

All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock. This means rocks, topsoil, trees, buildings, your pet dog, and so on, would be swept away into the atmosphere.
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Can we survive without sun?

With no sunlight, photosynthesis would stop, but that would only kill some of the plants—there are some larger trees that can survive for decades without it. Within a few days, however, the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet's surface would die soon after.
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What if Earth was a moon of Jupiter?

Since Jupiter's gravitational pull accelerates these objects to a collision speed of about 216,000 km/h (134,000 mph), at the minimum. If Earth became one of Jupiter's moons, we're now in the line of fire. As a much, much smaller planet we're less likely to be able to absorb those kind of impacts.
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