NASA will bomb the moon at 7:31 a.m., EDT, October 9, 2009. Our U.S. government is running a LCROSS Impact Clock on their website. As this is written there are 2 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes, 22 seconds to impact.The NASA site is encouraging people to organize Impact Parties.
The bomb detritus will be examined by a shadowing orbiter for traces of water. Water! The Centaur rocket will be shepherded by a delivery satellite that will target the 2-ton kinetic bomb to blast the Moon's surface at twice the speed of a bullet, cratering the moon 5 miles across. The resulting dust cloud will be six miles high, visible from Earth.
If there is water, what then? Who holds the deed to the Moon?
Where's Klaatu when we need him?
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