ive just relised something though, that guy was laughing after it, maybe they had a bet to see if it was visible or not and the other guy was passionate about it being visible and the guy in red is giving him **** ???
I'm glad I didn't stay up for the impact. The anti climax of it all would've nearly killed me. The only good thing to come out of it was the 'high five' situation. It totally deserves an "OH NO YOU DI'N'T!!"
Doubtless as a scientific endevour it will yield some results. But as an agency continually on the bleeding edge of budget cuts, NASA could have spent a little more effort in planning its transmission. A simple analogue broadcast would have been better.
I think poor Mr. "High Five" deserves some sympathy though. I mean he has to show up for work today!!
Did anyone really expect to see anything visual at all? I certainly was skeptical.
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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
Space weather http://www.spaceweather.com/ may have some images in the next hour or so and some american IIS members may post their image
From the Space weather site:
"The low brightness of the flash did not dim the enthusiasm of thousands of people around the world who stayed up late for lunar impact parties. At the Sci-Quest science museum in Huntsville, Alabama, about a hundred kids and parents gathered to watch the show. "We donned our party hats, blew our noise makers and waited for the impact," says science writer Dauna Coulter. NASA photographer David Higginbotham documented the scene..."
Party hats and noise makers? A "lunar impact party"?? Some people have way too much time on their hands, I think.
Some lessons to be learned from this...
1. Never throw a party unless the guest of honour is guaranteed to show up.
2. Never, I repeat never, let anyone hang like that bloke.
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Originally Posted by Rod66
In fact there was so much lack of impact evidence, even in IR mode as the science team frantically tried to instruct the flight team to change to. I wonder if they will get much from this... The commentators were hilarious at the end - "Well what do we think we saw there" - "Well I'm not exactly sure.." - Reminded me of a couple of beakers from the muppets looking at each other..
Rod you'll be happy to know that the latest images are coming through from LCROSS mission control room, attached below...
I think I know why it didn't work, they sent a 4 ton object to hit the moon, on the moon it would weigh about 600Kg, no enough mass to do the job they should have sent a 24 ton object
It seems LRO picked up the impact flash too: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LC...r_impacts.html
Does anyone know actually how much the impact would have heated up the lunar surface - are we talking 1000's of degrees, 100's, or much less?
Science is not all "Bells and Whistles"
I am so sorry you where dissapointed
I think the media pumped it up to be a major bang. They had this NASA guy firing a pellet into a sand disk to simulate the impact. There were editorials like "40 miles high plume of dust" thrown around. So for a lot of people yeah, it might have been a let down.
Impact site with 200 inch, no plume
