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Old June 12th 09, 02:11 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur,alt.astronomy,sci.space.history,misc.education,misc.education.science
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Default JAXA "KAGUYA"(SELENE), the big flop and still nothing Apollo

"KAGUYA"(SELENE) encounters our physically dark and extremely dusty
moon at an angle of just 1 degree, and there’s no bounce, skip or
hardly if any gouge, perhaps because the surface of this impact site
was simply way too soft, as in tens of meters deep kind of crystal dry
and electrostatic charged carbonado and basalt dust that’s saturated
in all kinds of local minerals (including sodium) plus countless
meteorite deposits.

Lots of terrific private astronomy equipment had to have been pointed
at the carefully specified impact site, and with more than enough
resolution and absolutely terrific dynamic range, not to mention the
ten fold better stuff at the disposal of NASA, or the hundred fold
better yet from team KECK, or for that matter the greatly improved
resolution, dynamic range and wide color/hue spectrum capability from
Hubble. Of course at least the HDTV and its full color spectrum via
KAGUYA should have functioned all the way up to a fraction of a second
or a couple frames prior to impact.

And what about all of those better TC (terrain camera) images for the
past 4 months while orbiting at 50 km, of resolution near 5 meters and
exceptional dynamic range?

Thus far we’ve got zip/nada/zilch to look at. Way to go JAXA, ISAS,
NASA and other guys.

Here’s an example of what a private astronomer can accomplish.
http://www.avertedimagination.com/moon_1.htm
http://www.avertedimagination.com/latest_1.htm
http://www.avertedimagination.com/im...oon100407.html
http://djsenn.podbean.com/wp-content...on_color_1.jpg

NASA color/hue over-saturated image:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0602...chedler_35.jpg

Just imagine what our NASA at 10 fold better can do, and KECK at least
100 fold better, as well as each of these in full/extended color
saturation so that mineral elements and any impact created vapors can
be deductively extrapolated. Not to mention the JAXA/Selene X-Ray
fluorescence spectrometer (XRS) and Gamma ray spectrometer (GRS). I’m
told that Japan has nifty telescopes too, but apparently theirs are
only braille scopes that at best can only detect monochrome. And what
about the somewhat secretive ISRO Chandrayaan-1 mission that’s
entirely run by 5th graders that can’t quite figure out how the
internet works?

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