NASA LCROSS Viewer's Guide.

[SIMPLYB1980]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/05oct_lcrossvg.htm

"We expect the debris plumes to be visible through mid-sized backyard telescopes—10 inches and larger," says Brian Day of NASA/Ames. Day is an amateur astronomer and the Education and Public Outreach Lead for LCROSS. "The initial explosions will probably be hidden behind crater walls, but the plumes will rise high enough above the crater's rim to be seen from Earth."

Unfortunately it looks like NC won't be able to see it.

http://www.pari.edu/about_pari/PublicPrograms/EaP/lectures/lcross-mission-to-the-moon

"On October 9, 2009 the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and the spent Centaur upper stage rocket will impact a permanently shadowed crater near the lunar South Pole. A good view of the impact plume may not be visible from North Carolina at 7:30 in the morning of October 9th. To mark the event, we will review this mission and goals during our Evening at PARI program. The goal of this program is to determine the presence of water ice on the Moon. This information is a necessary component cleaning future missions to the moon by humans."

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[brendan120678]

1. This is actually a pretty exciting experiment they are conducting...

I'm gonna see if I can find any video clips after the fact, once the impact occurs.

[SIMPLYB1980]

4. Yeah I have a 12" newtonian telescope.

I was hoping I would have a good reason to get up early and set it up. I would really like to see it for myself, but I'm sure NASA will provide much better footage, there is something about looking at space with your own eye that I really enjoy.

[LibertyLover]

2. I sometimes visit a web page dedicated to UFOs, paranormal happenings and conspiracy theories

One poster was all upset about this, going on about how we were bombing the moon and it would endanger the lives of everyone living on it because "we all know there are communities of humans and other sentient beings living on the moon" and that this experiment would create a crater 5 miles deep. Other posters tried to bring him down a bit. It was an interesting thread, to say the least.

[Codeine]

3. There's an equally disturbing thread

right here on DU.

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[SIMPLYB1980]

7. Wow no kidding.

"Cabeus A Crater where the Star Visitors live."

[SIMPLYB1980]

6. Kinda reminds me of Nuke the Moon. LoL!

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?NukeNuke&301

http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2009/08/nuke_the_moon.php

Okay, let's assume something knocked the moon out of its orbit and it is going to crash into the earth in an arbitrary amount of time. (7 days?)

You are humanity's last hope. You have the entire nuclear salvos of the USA and Russia at your disposal, which are being fitted to be capable of being launched into outer space and to reach the moon at another arbitrary rate. Your goal is to knock the moon back onto its original orbit by striking it from the side in such a way that will redirect its net force back to a position that will result in the moon having its original distance from the earth and angular momentum.

Is this possible? If so, under what conditions?

http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/nuke_moon_000514.html

"The U.S. Air Force developed a top-secret Cold War plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon in the 1950s.

In a letter to the journal Nature, physicist Leonard Reiffel, leader of the effort which was called Project A 119, wrote that the Air Force wanted to explore the effects of exploding a nuclear bomb on the moons face. The Air Force wanted the explosion to be clearly visible from Earth.

Reiffel wrote that the military leaders did not seem concerned with the loss to science that would have resulted from a large atomic explosion on the moons surface. Let alone what it may have done to the appearance of the "man in the moon." "