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NASA' LADEE Lunar Probe to Crash into the Moon this month
NASA's moon-orbiting LADEE probe (short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) is expected to impact Earth's natural satellite sometime on or before April 21. The LADEE spacecraft has been studying the moon's thin atmosphere called an exosphere and the lunar dust environment since it began orbiting the moon in October.
"If you hit anything at 1,600 meters (5,250 feet) per second, that's not a landing you walk away from, so it's by no means gentle," Rick Elphic, LADEE project scientist, told reporters during a news conference today (April 3). "This is a very, very high-speed impact, and even though there's a possibility of tumbling across the surface, there's nothing gentle about it. You [LADEE] will be destroyed." [See Photos of NASA's LADEE Mission]
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (another probe circling the moon) could look for LADEE's crash site after impact, said Butler Hine, LADEE project manager.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)What the hell are we going to do about the tides?? The oceans will die, the planet wont be able to survive if we keep bombing the moon. How will this affect me during my moon time?
This sounds like an extinction level event. No periods, no babies.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)like that ever works
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Didn't we bomb them before? Time for new immigration policies, if we gave them work visas, i think we could stop bombing them every few years.
Bill O'reilley is going to be so pissed when he finds out the tides stop tiding. No moon, no tides. Poor guy might lose his mind.
neverforget
(9,437 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Falafel.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)we should not tempt faith
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Solly Mack
(90,819 posts)The thread, that is.
neverforget
(9,437 posts)We need some laughter.
Solly Mack
(90,819 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,228 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Any disruptions? Do you remember?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,446 posts)Impact 9th Oct: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html
Yankees win Nov 4th: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_World_Series#Game_6
That's only 1 day short of a lunar sidereal month: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month
Coincidence? I think not.
Separation
(1,975 posts)NickB79
(19,311 posts)From the original thread
😂
neverforget
(9,437 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Anticipation!
R&K
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
chrisa
(4,524 posts)JHB
(37,170 posts)"The next four to six months will be critical."
</Tom Friedman>
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