SMART-1 impact, September 2006 |
SMART-1 impact, September 2006 |
Mar 16 2006, 05:26 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Emily posted a very nice article in her blog on the SMART-1 lunar impact in September this year. Here's a map of the targeted point:
But as Emily explained, the actual point may be off because of uncertainties about topography. I'm starting this thread to have a place for news and opinions on it, and - I really hope - maybe some observations at the time from any amateur astronomers out there. This event will be the last event to make it into my atlas. I've left a space for it, and I will make the final maps and fit them in, and then send the stuff off to the publisher. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 11 2006, 02:11 PM
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NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release: 2006 July 18 For more information -- Glenn A. Walsh: Daytime: E-Mail gawalsh@planetarium.cc Evening: Telephone 412-561-7876 Space Probe Crash on Moon May Be Visible to Amateur Astronomers with Large Telescopes Pittsburgh, July 18 – “On the evening of September 2, observers in the eastern half of North America with moderately large telescopes may get a chance to see the European SMART-1 spacecraft crash into the Moon,” according to Friends of the Zeiss Steering Committee Member Francis G. Graham, who is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Kent State University. Professor Graham has prepared a practical guide for amateur observers who wish to try to watch the impact of Smart-1 on the Moon, which can be accessed at the following link: http://www.venustransit.pghfree.net/gcorner/ImpactMoon.htm For further information, the following is contact information for Professor Graham: Francis Graham East Liverpool Regional Campus Kent State University 400 East 4th Street East Liverpool OH 43920 USA Telephone: 330-382-7466 Electronic Mail: fgraham@kent.edu -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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