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Old 22-June-2009, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Graham2001 View Post
It seems that someone thinks that the mission is in fact a deliberate attack on the hidden lunar civilizations that NASA has been suppressing since Apollo days.

See: http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m6d19-NASA-moon-bombing-violates-space-law--may-cause-conflict-with-lunar-extraterrestrial-civilizations
Wow, he starts getting things wrong in the first sentence. Quoting:

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The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater [snip]
What, does he think this thing is supposed to be impacting at relativistic velocity? Five miles? It won't even be close to that. From:

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/CraterSizesText.htm

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Scientists estimate that the crater that will be created by LCROSS’s impactor will be about 20 to 25 meters in diameter, or about 1/3 the size of a football field.
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