watch NASA punch the moon!!! (FRIDAY OCT 9TH)

rallyracer · 10-07-2009, 04:54 PM

LCROSS Lunar Impact
7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT
Friday Oct. 9

A live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

NASA will send a used-up spacecraft slamming into the moon's south pole to kick up a massive plume of lunar dirt and then scour it to see if there's any water or ice spraying up. The idea is to confirm the theory that water — a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon — is hidden below the barren moonscape.

The two ships will smash into the moon at 5,600 mph, more than seven times the speed of sound. The explosion will have the force of 1.5 tons of TNT and throw 772,000 pounds of lunar dirt out of the crater.

The crashes will also be a good show for the folks back home, which was always part of NASA's plan for the probe, Andrews said. The crashes will be broadcast live on NASA's Web site. The Hubble Space Telescope and other larger Earth telescopes will be trained at the moon. Observatories and museums are planning viewing parties in at least three countries.

And amateur astronomy buffs with telescopes who live west of the Mississippi may try to catch a glimpse of it through their own instruments because it will still be dark outside. People who live in areas where it will be daylight won't be able to see it from home telescopes.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...-v66AD9B6EAKO0

Where do I look, and what will I see?

click link \/
http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/observation/amateur.htm

Stamina · 10-07-2009, 04:58 PM

sub'd

I think I'll just have to watch it online or something.

rckrz6 · 10-07-2009, 04:59 PM

mmm im sure it will be on tv after words

rallyracer · 10-07-2009, 05:52 PM

bump

DeftonesFan867 · 10-07-2009, 09:28 PM

rallyracer · 10-08-2009, 04:41 PM

bump

springerdesigner · 10-08-2009, 04:43 PM

sub'd...

ilovecars · 10-08-2009, 04:58 PM

i hope someone can record it.

blackbolt89 · 10-08-2009, 05:08 PM

interesting.

i would lmao if something went horribly wrong and the moon split in half.

USMCFieldMP · 10-08-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by blackbolt89

interesting.

i would lmao if something went horribly wrong and the moon split in half.

Contrary to popular belief... the moon isn't made up of Cheese... or spare ribs.

I highly doubt it would split in half.

Chinelli3589 · 10-08-2009, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by blackbolt89

interesting.

i would lmao if something went horribly wrong and the moon split in half.

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Billig ss/sc · 10-08-2009, 05:16 PM

Awesome!!!!!!!

Billig ss/sc · 10-08-2009, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by blackbolt89

i would lmao if something went horribly wrong and the moon split in half.

I actually thought about that, watch us hit it hard enough to somehow knock it just enough off it's orbit and it'll crash into Earth around, oh say.... December 2012 haha

blackbolt89 · 10-08-2009, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by USMCFieldMP

Contrary to popular belief... the moon isn't made up of Cheese... or spare ribs.

I highly doubt it would split in half.

hey! don't ruin my excitement! lol

i want to believe that at 731 tomorrow morning i will see the moon split in half from the window of the train.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billig ss/sc

I actually thought about that, watch us hit it hard enough to somehow knock it just enough off it's orbit and it'll crash into Earth around, oh say.... December 2012 haha

omg how fucking horrible would that be.

we see on tv later tomorrow night the head of NASA saying "we regret to inform the US that the moon was set off it's orbit and will now collide with the earth on December 21, 2012."