[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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