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What is the possibility that the impacting Smart-1 at 2 km/sec. will emit a
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In article dxNJg.246$Hr1.194@clgrps12, MA-MA wrote:
What is the possibility that the impacting Smart-1 at 2 km/sec. will emit a flash of light that can be detected at 120 - 150 X's magnification and what is the minimum aperture needed? What is the possibility that the impacting Smart-1 at 2 km/sec. will emit a flash of light that can be detected at 120 - 150 X's magnification and what is the minimum aperture needed? Nobody knows.... to try to find out, why don't you look for such a flash, using the largest telescope you have available? Perhaps the flash will be visible also in quite small instruments, or perhaps it'll be invisible even in the largest instruments; we won't know until after the impact. (unfortunately for me, I can't try to look for it, since the Moon is way below my horizon when the impact is supposed to happen) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/ |
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MA-MA wrote: What is the possibility that the impacting Smart-1 at 2 km/sec. will emit a flash of light that can be detected at 120 - 150 X's magnification and what is the minimum aperture needed? This is a cruel practise ... I'm sure we can get up a campaign group against it. |
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Joe Jakarta wrote:
MA-MA wrote: What is the possibility that the impacting Smart-1 at 2 km/sec. will emit a flash of light that can be detected at 120 - 150 X's magnification and what is the minimum aperture needed? This is a cruel practise ... I'm sure we can get up a campaign group against it. Where is the environmental impact (ha ha) statement? Has anyone determined if the RoHS directive is being violated? Who will be first to blame this "cowboy" planetary science on George Bush? |
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