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Grail Probes to crash into the moon in about an hour
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RE: Grail Probes to crash into the moon in about an hour
December 17, 2012 at 4:38 pm (This post was last modified: December 17, 2012 at 4:44 pm by popeyespappy.)
They just said the actual impact event won't be for about 2 hours.
(December 17, 2012 at 3:16 pm)Chuck Wrote: Hmmm, the Chinese managed to send their moon probe out into deep space to photograph an asteroid after the conclusion of the primary moon mission. Seems to be a slightly better use of a redundant probe than crashing another into the moon.

Apparently they do hope to get some data from the crash by studying the ejecta with several instruments and the crash site with the LRO.

Also the crash is going to be on the dark side so there won't be anything to see...
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RE: Grail Probes to crash into the moon in about an hour - by popeyespappy - December 17, 2012 at 4:38 pm

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