LCROSS Lunar Impact |
LCROSS Lunar Impact |
Oct 9 2009, 02:19 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
T minus 9 hrs. 10 min till impact. NASA TV coverage begins @ 1015 GMT (0315 PDT). Link to coverage here.
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Oct 9 2009, 12:39 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I would say it's a safe bet if water is found in a shadowed crater, it's a common thing that could be found in ALL solar systems.
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Oct 9 2009, 12:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
For anyone interested, there is an archived version of NASA TV's coverage here.
It's 109mb, I'm downloading it now and will try to put together an edited version of the last few minutes before and after Centaur and LCROSS impact. |
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Oct 9 2009, 12:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1443 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
NASA news conference at 10 AM EDT
They've got some 'splaining to do. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 12:51 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Maybe they impacted a lunar bog ?
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Oct 9 2009, 12:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1443 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Quote David Morrison, Director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute"I think we're all a little bit disappointed that we didn't see anything, but 90% of the data has not yet been seen."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1795...-into-moon.html -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 01:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
May be it was a splash, not a kaboum: this has to be liquid water
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Oct 9 2009, 01:09 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10189 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
http://www.mmto.org/lcross/
Go here for streamimg video from MMT possibly showing the impact plume. But Palomar reportedly saw nothing. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 9 2009, 01:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1443 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Nothing from Lick
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/lc...e-data-pending/ -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 01:33 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
...Go here for streamimg video from MMT... I saw something on Twitter indicating MMT was out of focus so no useful data was gathered? ...but that's Twitter and could possibly be wrong -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 9 2009, 01:34 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I was watching MMT and the closeup did seem a bit blurry. The other view seemed ok.
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Oct 9 2009, 01:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 593 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 279 |
Nothing from Lick http://www.universetoday.com/2009/10/09/lc...e-data-pending/ I just stacked a few of their frames and can see a bit fat nothing. Which is good, right? Andy |
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Oct 9 2009, 01:44 PM
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Maybe they missed the target;)
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Oct 9 2009, 01:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Somewhere way back, someone had posted an animated GIF showing a lunar impact as seen through a telescope. There was a tiny flash (you could almost imagine it going "piff").
I'd assumed that vaporizing a football field worth of lunar regolith would've made a bigger flash and a sunlit dust plume. Guess not.... -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 9 2009, 01:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
I was somewhat bemused by the confusion over the commanding being given to the Flight Director in the final 60 seconds before Centaur impact, to change a setting on the NIR instrument. "Was that November IR?" How much time was lost in that communication? Hopefully it didn't affect the collection of data. Just shows the unintended consequences of having two instruments with similar sounding acronyms, NIR and MIR.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Oct 9 2009, 01:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Going back over the video, there was something in the infrared images that caught my eye.
I've taken 4 frames and put them in an animated gif. You can see, almost in the middle here a small dot appear. Bright at the centre and a darker blue around it. It may just be "noise", but it happens and in the audio on the TV coverage just a moment later they announce Centaur impact. Not claiming anything here, just pointing it out. I suppose we'll know any minute now as the Press Conference is about to start. |
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