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E.P., here's your chance to study an impact first hand!

(without getting incinerated...)

Tomorrow morning at 7:30 EDT, NASA is going to crash a probe into the moon as part of its LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission, the main purpose of which is to discover if there's any water on the moon. If you happen to have a 10-12" telescope (or larger) then you might be able to see the plume from your backyard. For the rest of us, the impact will be streamed live over the web in a few places. NASA will have a feed, beginning at 6:15 EDT. The NASA feed includes live footage from the spacecraft itself as well as expert commentary and other goodies. Astronomy service SLOOH is offering a double-shot of earth-bound feeds, with one feed from New Hampshire and the other from Arizona. The SLOOH feeds start at 6:30 am EDT.

Here's a link to a viewing guide to the impact, outlining that Amateur astronomers need a 10-inch or bigger telescope to make observations.

http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/80305/fr ... nar-impact

Feeds: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ and http://www.slooh.com/special_feed.php

http://spacefellowship.com/2009/10/08/g ... ar-impact/

That would be 4:30 in the morning out here.


I can't think of anything I'd be willing to get up see at that hour.

Minimalist wrote:That would be 4:30 in the morning out here.


I can't think of anything I'd be willing to get up see at that hour.

That's not entirely true, of course, Min.
Anna-Nicole got you up, didn't they!
At any hour...

That was then....this is now.

Thanks min, but there's a big difference between this type of impact and asteroid and comet impacts. Like several kilotons to megatons of difference.

Glad to have slept through this. Appears that it was something of a dud.

Minimalist wrote:Glad to have slept through this. Appears that it was something of a dud.

There's a lesson in there somewhere, I'm sure.

It was less Anna Nicole Smith and more Twiggy.

Taking a leaf from the Minimalist Book of Logic, for the impact to have produced the anticipated result the craft would have had to hit what Nasa expected it to hit!
It may just as well have struck solid rock!

Roy.