[meteorite-list] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

Jodie Reynolds spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
Tue Mar 19 17:25:24 EDT 2013


Hello Ron,

I hereby dub the heretofore unnamed feature where GRAIL A rests as:

Mount Ebbrest

and where GRAIL B rests as:

Massif Flower


Make it so.

--- Jodie

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 11:41:35 AM, you wrote:


> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-103  

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> "Both impact sites lie on the southern slope of an unnamed massif
> [mountain] that lies south of the crater Mouchez and northeast of the
> crater Philolaus," said Robinson. "The massif stands as much as 2,500
> meters [about 8,202 feet] above the surrounding plains. The impact sites
> are at an elevation of about 700 meters [around 2,296 feet] and 1,000
> meters [3,281 feet], respectively, about 500 to 800 meters
> [approximately 1,640 to 2,625 feet] below the summit. The two impact
> craters are about 2,200 meters [roughly 7,218 feet] apart. GRAIL B
> [renamed Flow] impacted about 30 seconds after GRAIL A [Ebb] at a site
> to the west and north of GRAIL A."

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