00:00What if Mimas, the small, icy moon of Saturn, was thrown off its orbit and collided with our moon?
00:06It would be a cosmic clash on a truly spectacular scale.
00:10The moon is about 9 times larger and 1,000 times more massive than Mimas,
00:16so this wouldn't be a death blow, but the impact would be utterly apocalyptic.
00:21Mimas, a moon mostly made of water ice,
00:23would collide at a speed that would cause its complete vaporization and fragmentation.
00:30Instead of a single impact crater,
00:33this icy visitor would unleash thousands of devastating meteor strikes across the moon's surface.
00:40These secondary impacts would create a storm of new craters
00:44and generate an enormous debris cloud that would wrap around the entire moon.
00:49Any spacecraft in this area would be shredded by the relentless debris storm.
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