[meteorite-list] NEW TIME! How To Observe SMART-1's Impact on theMoon

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 2 23:40:10 2006
Message-ID: <001b01c6cf0a$97953b00$79068cc9_at_0019110394>

Sterling:

Central & eastern times are later than Pacific, not earlier! The Moon will
be in the middle of Sagittarius's teapot and at 22 degrees elevation in the
skies of St. Louis MO at 12:41 - 12:43 AM CDT. That'll be pretty due south
of you. And it looks like you've changed the time by 2 minutes from what
Ron's news article said, since you made central time two hours earlier than
pacific when it is two hours later. So you should be ok. Yeah, they were
sloppy with the news article since they didn't put "PM" in the "10:41 (GMT
05:41)" comment, but all seems ok, and still waiting to happen tonight.
Clear skies, Doug



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW TIME! How To Observe SMART-1's Impact on
theMoon


> Hi,
>
> The crash did not occur at 1041 PDT (0841 CDT, 0741 EDT).
> The correction to clear the crater, according to this source:
> http://technocrat.net/d/2006/9/2/7440
> and three others in the last hour or two, has delayed the impact
> until 01:43 AM SUN SEPT 3 EDT
> which is 12:43 AM SUN SEPT 3 CDT
> which is 11:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 PDT
> which is 09:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 HAWAII
> This will also shift the areas from which it can be viewed to
> the West. Where I am, the Moon will be below the horizon then.
> Good luck if you're trying to get a look at it!
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:26 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] How To Observe SMART-1's Impact on the Moon
>
>
> >
> >
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9891-how-to-observe-smart1s-impac
t-on-the-moon.html
> >
> > > The expected impact time is 1041 PDT on Saturday (0541 GMT on Sunday).
> > > However, mission planners are performing one last burn on Friday to
> > raise the spacecraft's orbit by 600 metres and prevent an early crash.
> > "We want to be sure we avoid this rim," [Clausius crater]
>
>
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Received on Sat 02 Sep 2006 11:39:39 PM PDT