Actually, a glancing blow isn't possible. The gravitational pull between the two planets would be so great it would basically result in a head-on collision. Any life on those planets would have long since been extinguished prior to the collision due to the gravitational force. The planets themselves would be destroyed and all that would be left would be pieces of rubble.
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I admit to having a couple problems with this answer. First, life would continue until the extinction, for if the bodies were moving towards a 'head on collision' the gravity would become such as to fragment either surface until - at worst - hours before impact. Second, there are two examples of glancing blows in our solar system that I am aware of: Mars and Earth. Most of Mars' northern surface is flat due to having become a sea of magma around four billion years ago. The object struck a glancing blow, but it was small and perhaps slow. It is believed that any ejecta remnants of the object all or mostly fell into Mars shortly after the strike. The Earth's moon was created by a similar strike, but in this case the object was much larger - although still relatively slow moving. Some of the object managed to leave the earth after striking it - along with significant portions of the Earth's atmosphere and crust. The molten ejecta eventually coalesced into the moon.
Now, I realize that in most instances either the object striking the planet (even if planet sized itself, as with the formation of the Earth's moon due to a Mars-sized body colliding with the Earth) would either meld with the planet (as with Mars' impact) or be reduced to a stream of molten slag that might later either form a moon or a ring of debris around the planet.
My question is - say, presuming the scenario in which the moon formed - if the object were moving faster and - due to orbital considerations and velocity - likely to only skim the surface of the planet - could it survive the impact. I realize that if no impact occurs, it is likely in this situation that one or both objects might be forced into a new orbit by the sling-shot situation (rather like some satellites sling shot around planets to increase their velocity and so reach the outer solar system). Could a sling shot, slowed by the friction of actual impacting / sliding along the surface - allow for the survival of both planets? I fully expect, even if survival occurs, that the surfaces of both will be reduced to magma oceans due to the cracking, crumpling, and tidal forces upon each of the crusts. But is it even theoretically possible?
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The planets would continue to exist. However, life as we know it would not be possible.
The way physics work in our universe tends to lock planets and whatnot into orbits, and since our spot of the universe has been around for a while now these orbits have "all" been tested and found not to coincide with each other. It is possible that we one day would encounter a rogue planet drifting through the universe that could be headed for a collision with one of "our" planets.
no a person could not survive on uranus
Rocky planets are formed when the deepest parts of the rock are warm. The planet's sun or protostar making the heavier elements sink to the deepest parts and stay there by warming the planet. The basic answer is that planets that are mainly gas could not survive close to the Sun. The temperature would cause the gas to escape into space.
It is a double or multiple star which could make planets less likely to be surrounding it.
The planets would continue to exist. However, life as we know it would not be possible.
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Nothing that we know of can survive the heat generated on surface of stars, therefore, no. Planets could carry life forms.
No. You see, there is no O2, H20, or an atmosphere that could sustain life. Not to mention that it is way too cold as well.
Antarctica was the last continent on earth to be discovered, because discovery transport was based on sea-going ships which could not survive a collision with an iceberg.
They could swerve into somebody's car and cause a collision
Some terrestrial planets are mars mercury Venus and earth gaseous planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune.
The way physics work in our universe tends to lock planets and whatnot into orbits, and since our spot of the universe has been around for a while now these orbits have "all" been tested and found not to coincide with each other. It is possible that we one day would encounter a rogue planet drifting through the universe that could be headed for a collision with one of "our" planets.
The outer planets are gas planets
could we grow plants on other planets? Answers please.
Yes, the planets temperatures do have something to do with the life that exists on the planet because mostly Uranus's temperature is -210 °C. In this type of weather the life that could exist has to be a fur covered species so that it can survive the temperature conditions on the planet.
no a person could not survive on uranus