(meteorobs) Lunar Impacts

[prospector at znet.com]

Me too! I thought about the time of the impact their computer froze (again)
and we missed the moment. From time to time, especially as the impactor
neared the Moon, the data overloaded the computer as contrasts required
more power than they had. As I posted on Twitter, "This was a little like
LCROSS between paint drying and Geraldos opening of Al Capones vault." Too
young to know? Check wikipedia, it's there, happened in 1986 and took hours
of prime time, almost nothing, bottles, scraps of paper, big bust. His
career never recovered. Bad rap for NASA.

                                            Dave English
                                        Oceanside, California

Quoting Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca>:

> Rascals:
> 	WOW!  I should have gone to bed!  Clouds moved in and NASA TV was
> uneventful!  Makes one wonder how large a meteoroid creates the
> observed impact flashes on the Moon.  Admittedly the meteoroids are
> travelling at much higher velocities than the two impact devices.
> Much more of an energy release on impact for the meteoroids because
> of their high velocities.
> Ed Majden
> Courtenay, B.C.
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