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

[Robert Woolard]

Sterling, list,

  Anyone got anything to report? Unbelievably, the
Moon slipped into the ONLY cloud in the sky here just
ONE minute or so before impact! I surely thought I was
going to have a chance to witness the impact (if it
was visible thru a small scope) when that cloud just
"reached up" and covered the Moon.

  Robert Woolard  

--- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:


> Doug,

> 

> 

>     At my location (roughly 40 N, 90 W, the Moon was

> due

> south at 8 PM CDT. Currently (11:45 PM CDT), it's

> west

> of SW and low. It will set here at 12:06 AM

> (09-03-06) CDT.

> Impact will occur at 12:41-12:45 AM when the Moon is

> below

> my horizon. (Not that it matters; I had cloud

> cover.)

>     My pacific times ARE earlier than eastern ones.

> Look at the days

> and dates. I DID omit the Mountain time zone,

> though... Sorry,

> Colorado, Wyoming, etc. (Clear sky country!)

>     They should have read:

>         01:43 AM SUN SEPT 3 EDT

>         12:43 AM SUN SEPT 3 CDT

>         11:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 MDT

>         10:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 PDT

>         08:43 PM SAT SEPT 2 HAWAII

>     The latest items I Googled gave impact times

> with minutes

> ranging from H:41 to H:45, so there must be some

> uncertainty.

> I went with the median.

>     Or, put it this way, 40 minutes to go until

> impact.

> 

> Sterling K. Webb

>

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> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug at aim.com>

> To: "Sterling K. Webb"

> <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite Mailing 

> List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:39 PM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW TIME! How To

> Observe SMART-1's Impact on 

> theMoon

> 

> 

> > 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

> >>

>

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> >> ----- 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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