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

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Sep 3 01:02:00 2006
Message-ID: <008d01c6cf16$1183ac70$e07dd745_at_ATARIENGINE>

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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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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