Thursday, October 8, 2009

Moon Shot

Here is the moon in the Miami western sky early this morning. That branch trying to catch the moon is my overgrown oak tree. I understand that tomorrow, at about 7:30AM Eastern Daylight Time, NASA's LCROSS probe and its spent Centaur rocket stage will be purposely crashed into the large crater Cabeus. I will be having a front row seat right here. All I need to figure out is where on the disk it will hit. Now you know what looking for a needle in a hay stack is like. Or... this is like looking for a specially marked grain of sand in the Sahara desert. Try to watch? Not try to watch? Nah! Can't deploy my telescope because it's in a box somewhere. But it you want to, you can try to watch this event here.

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