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LCROSS Live Broadcast
LCROSS Lunar Impact
7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT
Friday Oct. 9
A live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.
The 1.5 hour broadcast includes:
o Live footage from spacecraft camera
o Real-time telemetry based animation
o Views of LCROSS Mission and Science Operations
o Broadcast commentary with expert guests
o Prepared video segments
o Views of the public impact viewing event at NASA Ames
o Possible live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea.
The live LCROSS Post-Impact News Conference will be 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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I'm just sayin'...
More Information on the Planned Cabal Attack on the Star Visitors Lunar Settlement; and
Updated Joint Psychic Exercise Instructions
Friends,
I want to share new information on the planned Cabal attack on the Star Visitors lunar settlement
Since the time when loyal Good Guys/Gals within NASA redirected LCROSS and its Centaur rocket companion away from Cabeus A Crater, (after I relayed Star Nations' message to the President), Star Nations has foreseen that the Cabal intend to manufacture new "evidence" over the next few days to cause LCROSS to be redirected back to Cabeus A Crater where the Star Visitors live.
To remind: the Cabal operation involves crashing NASA's LCROSS satellite and its accompanying Centaur rocket stage into the Moon's surface within a shadowed lunar South Pole crater, Cabeus A, on October 9, 11:30 UT (07:30 am EDT, 04:30 am PDT) .
See attached photos of Cabeus A Crater, and of LCROSS and its Centaur rocket. The Star Visitors colony is located in the upper northwest quadrant, up against the crater wall, in approximately the location which has the purple rectangle superimposed in the attached NASA photo.
The Cabal within NASA know that there is a colony of Star Visitors living within Cabeus A Crater.
In addition, the Cabal have secretly weaponized the insides of LCROSS/Centaur to make their impact more deadly (possibly with advanced high explosives).
So, we will remain with our original plan to conduct the Joint Psychic Exercise October 8 with Star Nations; and, the object of the JPE will be to:
1) both redirect LCROSS and its Centaur rocket away from the Moon AND
2) then destroy both LCROSS and its Centaur to avoid their weaponized cargo from floating through space where it might eventually cause harm somewhere else.
Since Star Nations is in accord with the dual objectives of such a Joint Psychic Exercise, we will proceed on October 8th as originally planned.
The Cabal plan, to target and crash LCROSS onto the Star Persons colony is directed by Air Force Space Command (AFSC) Major General Wesley Clark, under the direction of General C. Robert ("Bob") Kehler, Commander of the AFSC. Both Major Gen. Clark and General C. Robert Kehler operate from Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, AFSC headquarters of the Cabal "Masters of Space". (Sic) Some may wish to direct some psychic "attention" to these Cabal generals as well.
The Cabal's secret objective is to use the LCROSS and attached rocket stage to obliterate the Star Visitor settlement residing within that Crater. The LCROSS space probe will guide its empty 2-ton Centaur booster rocket toward its target. The rocket will crash into the Crater at 5,600 mph, creating a new crater approximately 5 miles wide. That impact would be so powerful that it would throw up matter skyward for a distance of anywhere from six miles to 30 miles high, according to NASA. After the Centaur rocket crashes onto the Star Visitor colony within Cabeus A, Crater, four minutes later LCROSS would also slam into the lunar colony in a one-two punch amplified by munitions secretly on board.
The two-ton Centaur rocket qualifies as a space-based kinetic weapon, a crude Star Wars weapon. The use of space weapons is a violation of international law, the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Outer Space Treaty, to which the U.S. is a party.
The Cabal is engaged in unlawful war crimes and attempting to position the United States, and by extension, all Earth nations, in an act of war against star civilizations. Since this is not a true act of the United States Government but a rogue act by Cabal infiltrators within NASA, then the official government of the United States, and by extension the United Nations, tacitly repudiate this planned action as unlawful, now that I have informed the U.S. Administration.
Thus, when we and Star Nations takes action against this Cabal-controlled space probe attack, we do so with the tacit assent of the U.S. and the UN.
And of course as Councillor of Earth I ratify Star Nations' and our intervention to redirect and destroy LCROSS and its Centaur rocket as a lawful remedy against the Cabal planned attack.
During the Joint Psychic Exercise our and Star Nations¡¯ action will involve both redirecting LCROSS and its accompanying Centaur rocket-shell away from the Moon and then disintegrating them in space.
For smooth collaboration, participants should psychically push LCROSS and its Centaur booster to the left of the Moon (from the perspective of looking at the Moon from Earth). And then after LCROSS and Centaur are moving left, off course from the Moon, direct psychic telekinetic force and/or energy to cause LCROSS and Centaur to disintegrate into harmless molecules.
So, then, a week from now on Oct. 8, we will engage (along with Star Nations) in a Joint Psychic Exercise to divert the LCROSS space probe and accompanying Centaur rocket away from crashing into the Star Visitors lunar colony within Cabeus A Crater, and then utterly disintegrating them.
Star Nations advises participants to use very strong shielding since the Cabal will be using its "super-psychic" magick practitioners to try to block our Joint Psychic Exercise from working. Strong shielding technique can be found at: www.drboylan.com/shielding101.html
Our Joint Psychic Exercise will take place simultaneously globally on October 8, (the day before supposed impact).
The time for you to join together with us in this Joint Psychic Exercise on Thursday, October 8, is as follows:
(Daylight Saving/Summer Time where applicable)
Hawai'ian Islands: 5 am - Thursday
Anchorage, Alaska: 7 am
Los Angeles/San Francisco/Vancouver, BC (PDT): 8 am
Denver/Calgary (MST): 9 am
Chicago/Mexico City (CDT): 10 am
New York/Washington, DC/San Juan, Puerto Rico/Bogot¨¢, Columbia (EDT): 11 am
Halifax, Nova Scotia/Caracas, Venezuela: 12:00 noon
Sao Paulo, Brazil: 12 noon
Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)/Greenwich Mean Time/Zulu: 15:00 hrs. / 3 p.m.,
London/Dakar: 4 pm
Paris/Algiers/Rome/Berlin: 5 pm
Amman, Jordan/Capetown, SA: 6 pm
Moscow/Riyadh: 7 pm
Dubai: 7 pm
New Delhi: 8:30 pm
Beijing/Shanghai/Singapore/Manila: 11:00 pm,
Tokyo/Seoul/Perth, AU: 12 midnight, Thursday-Friday
Adelaide, AU: 12:30 am Friday
Brisbane, AU: 1 am, Friday
Canberra/Sydney, AU: 2 am Friday
Auckland, NZ: 4 am Friday
Kamchatka, Russia: 4 am Friday
If you absolutely cannot make this time, join us as soon as you can, and back-time or forward-time (time-jump by intention) your effort to coincide with ours.
Thank you.
in the light,
Richard Boylan, Ph.D. |
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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:shakeshead: ...I can't believe they're actually going to go through with this...
Here's how its supposed to go down;
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Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, that one hits the ground, too. It's raining spaceships!
Put on your hard hat and get ready for action, because on Friday, Oct. 9th, what you just imagined is really going to happen--and you can have a front row seat.
The impact site is crater Cabeus near the Moon's south pole. NASA is guiding the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite ("LCROSS" for short) and its Centaur booster rocket into the crater's floor for a spectacular double-impact designed to "unearth" signs of lunar water.
There are two ways to watch the show.
First, turn on NASA TV. The space agency will broadcast the action live from the Moon, with coverage beginning Friday morning at 3:15 am PDT (10:15 UT). The first hour or so, pre-impact, will offer expert commentary, status reports from mission control, camera views from the spacecraft, and telemetry-based animations.
The actual impacts commence at 4:30 am PDT (11:30 UT). The Centaur rocket will strike first, transforming 2200 kg of mass and 10 billion joules of kinetic energy into a blinding flash of heat and light. Researchers expect the impact to throw up a plume of debris as high as 10 km.
Close behind, the LCROSS mothership will photograph the collision for NASA TV and then fly right through the debris plume. Onboard spectrometers will analyze the sunlit plume for signs of water (H2O), water fragments (OH), salts, clays, hydrated minerals and assorted organic molecules.
"If there's water there, or anything else interesting, we'll find it," says Tony Colaprete of NASA Ames, the mission's principal investigator.
Next comes the mothership's own plunge. Four minutes after the Centaur "lands," the 700 kg LCROSS satellite will strike nearby, sending another, smaller debris plume over the rim of Cabeus.
The Hubble Space Telescope, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and hundreds of telescopes great and small on Earth will scrutinize the two plumes, looking for signs of water and the unexpected.
And that brings us to the second way to see the show: Grab your telescope.
"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."
The Pacific Ocean and western parts of North America are favored with darkness and a good view of the Moon at the time of impact. Hawaii is the best place to be, with Pacific coast states of the USA a close second. Any place west of the Mississippi River, however, is a potential observing site.
When the plumes emerge from Cabeus, they will be illuminated by sunshine streaming over the polar terrain. The crater itself will be in the dark, however, permanently shadowed by its own walls. "That's good," says Day. "The crater's shadows will provide a dark backdrop for viewing the sunlit plumes."
In an earlier stage of mission planning, scientists hoped to strike a crater closer to the Moon's limb so that the plumes would billow out against the dark night sky, providing maximum contrast for observers on Earth. However, recent data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Japan's Kaguya spacecraft and India's Chandrayaan-1 probe altered those plans.
"We've just learned that Cabeus may contain relatively-rich deposits of hydrogen and/or frozen water," says Colaprete. "Cabeus is not as close to the lunar limb as we would have liked, but it seems to offer us the best chance of hitting H2O."
The LCROSS team hopes many people-amateurs and professionals alike-will observe and photograph the plumes. "The more eyes the better," says Day. "Remember, we've never done this before. We're not 100% sure what will happen, and big surprises are possible."
Veteran amateur astronomer Kurt Fisher has prepared a 13 MB slideshow to help fellow amateurs locate and witness the plumes: download it . There is also an online LCROSS observer's group where novices can read introductory articles and chat with other observers.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for citizen scientists to join NASA in the process of discovery," says Day, who urges observers to submit their images to the LCROSS Citizen Science Site. "It's a great adventure, and anyone can participate."
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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...oooo kay... one last bump before show time...
I'll be up for this thing...  |
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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I thought you were watching LaCross. 
Looking for it in the a.m. 
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:25 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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Update:
NASA probes give moon a double smack (Update)
October 9th, 2009 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer
This artist's rendering provided by NASA via Brown University shows the Centaur upper stage rocket separating from its shepherding spacecraft on a trajectory toward the moon. On Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, NASA will crash the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, into a crater on the moon’s south pole to search for evidence of water ice. (AP Photo/NASA)
Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.
But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen. Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was all about. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.
NASA officials said their instruments were working, but live photos of the actual crash were missing. Some select photos should be ready by a 10 a.m. press conference, they said.
But so far all NASA had was "images on the way in," said NASA spokesman Grey Hautaluoma.
Expectations by the public for live plume video were probably too high and based on pre-crash animations, some of which were not by NASA, project manager Dan Andrews told The Associated Press Friday morning 80 minutes after impact.
Another issue, one NASA thought was a good possibility going into Friday, was that the lighting was bad and work needs to be done on images to make them easier to see, Andrews said. Experts said the images could be essentially "gray against black," he said.
"What matters for us is: What is the nature of the stuff that was kicked up going in?" Andrews said. "All nine instruments were working fine and we received good data."
Andrews said the science team is pouring through the information - including what are supposed to be good images from ground-based telescopes on Earth - to answer the big question: Is there some form of water under the moon's surface that was dislodged? It will probably be two weeks before scientists will be certain about the answer, he said.
Before the crash, mission scientists said there was a chance that if it was really moist under the crater, they'd know about water within an hour. That's not the case now, Andrews said.
People who got up before dawn to look for the crash at Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory threw confused looks at each other instead.
Telescope demonstrator Jim Mahon called the celestial show "anticlimactic."
"I was hoping we'd see a flash or a flare," Mahon said.
About 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, 70 elementary school students at the Lewis Center for Educational Research charter school in Apple Valley capped off their weeklong "moon camp" experience by rising early to watch NASA television along with 300 members of the public.
"It was cool seeing actual pictures of the moon live," said 10-year-old Jackson Bridges, but he added: "I wanted to see the debris flying out. It was still interesting to watch, but it was less interesting without the flying debris."
The first and much bigger crash was supposed to hit with the force of 1.5 tons of TNT into crater Cabeus and create a mini-crater about half the size of an Olympic pool. The second crash was to be about one-third as strong.
The idea is to confirm the theory that water - a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon - is hidden below the barren moonscape.
The images were to come from the probe itself. The probe is LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite and pronounced L-Cross. It had five cameras and four other pieces of equipment to look for ice or any form of water as it dove through the dust storm created by the empty hull.
Minutes before the first crash, NASA was riding high, reporting no trouble at the Ames Research Center in California, where the mission was being controlled.
"Everything is working so very well," NASA's Victoria Friedensen, a manager in NASA's exploration office, said minutes before the one-two smack.
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On the Net:
NASA's LCROSS site: http://www.nasa.gov/lcross
©2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:39 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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| Quote: | But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen. Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was all about. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.
NASA officials said their instruments were working, but live photos of the actual crash were missing.Some select photos should be ready by a 10 a.m. press conference, they said. |
WTF is NASA hiding?? I don't buy any of the above! Do you? I'm so tired of their bullshit!
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:18 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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| Spec wrote: | | Quote: | But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen. Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was all about. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.
NASA officials said their instruments were working, but live photos of the actual crash were missing.Some select photos should be ready by a 10 a.m. press conference, they said. |
WTF is NASA hiding?? I don't buy any of the above! Do you? I'm so tired of their bullshit!
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That a moon base laser beam disintegrated it? 
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:52 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:04 am Post subject: LCROSS Live Broadcast
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I really don't think its funny, the continuous lies coming from that organization...
But apparently they are happy with the results;
Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards
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Oct. 9, 2009 MEDIA ADVISORY : 09-131AR NASA Spacecraft Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments to assess whether water ice is present.
The satellite traveled 5.6 million miles during an historic 113-day mission that ended in the Cabeus crater, a permanently shadowed region near the moon's south pole. The spacecraft was launched June 18 as a companion mission to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"The LCROSS science instruments worked exceedingly well and returned a wealth of data that will greatly improve our understanding of our closest celestial neighbor," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal investigator and project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The team is excited to dive into data."
In preparation for impact, LCROSS and its spent Centaur upper stage rocket separated about 54,000 miles above the surface of the moon on Thursday at approximately 6:50 p.m. PDT.
Moving at a speed of more than 1.5 miles per second, the Centaur hit the lunar surface shortly after 4:31 a.m. Oct. 9, creating an impact that instruments aboard LCROSS observed for approximately four minutes. LCROSS then impacted the surface at approximately 4:36 a.m.
"This is a great day for science and exploration," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The LCROSS data should prove to be an impressive addition to the tremendous leaps in knowledge about the moon that have been achieved in recent weeks. I want to congratulate the LCROSS team for their tremendous achievement in development of this low cost spacecraft and for their perseverance through a number of difficult technical and operational challenges."
Other observatories reported capturing both impacts. The data will be shared with the LCROSS science team for analysis. The LCROSS team expects it to take several weeks of analysis before it can make a definitive assessment of the presence or absence of water ice.
"I am very proud of the success of this LCROSS mission team," said Daniel Andrews, LCROSS project manager at Ames. "Whenever this team would hit a roadblock, it conceived a clever work-around allowing us to push forward with a successful mission."
The images and video collected by the amateur astronomer community and the public also will be used to enhance our knowledge about the moon.
"One of the early goals of the mission was to get as many people to look at the LCROSS impacts in as many ways possible, and we succeeded," said Jennifer Heldmann, Ames' coordinator of the LCROSS observation campaign. "The amount of corroborated information that can be pulled out of this one event is fascinating."
"It has been an incredible journey since LCROSS was selected in April 2006," said Andrews. "The LCROSS Project faced a very ambitious schedule and an uncommonly small budget for a mission of this size. LCROSS could be a model for how small robotic missions are executed. This is truly big science on a small budget."
For more information about the LCROSS mission, including images and video, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lcross
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Reminds me of how they lost contact with the moon landing and years later we hear the truth.
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CHAI right again
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Nasa Moon bombing: analysis
Nasa has crashed two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon - as part of its LCROSS 'bombing' mission - in a bid to discover how much water is on the Moon. But little was seen by millions of viewers watching the live footage.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Published: 1:42PM BST 09 Oct 2009
There may have been much backslapping and jubilation at Nasa mission control but millions of people watching it live on the internet must have felt slightly short changed.
The much anticipated 'bombing' of the Moon to find water did not even muster a whimper far less a bang. Great television it was not.
Nasa Moon bombing Apart from the Moon and its craters getting slowly bigger, and the occasional radio exchange between control room staff, nothing happened.
Where was the much anticipated explosion? Where was the splash of ice and water? Where was the 6.2 mile high spray of lunar dust?
If we hadn't been told the two spacecraft had crashed landed, we would never have known.
Even the commentators seemed perplexed - and not a little embarrassed.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the mission is a failure. It could still find water, in fact the lack of fireworks could be a good sign.
The spacecraft may have landed in a lake, or an ice sheeet or been engulfed in gloopy mud - all of which would be incredibly interesting.
Whatever the reason for the lack of fireworks, Nasa should still have learnt a great deal from the LCROSS mission.
Unfortunatelty we will just have to take their word for it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6281566/Nasa-Moon-bombing-analysis.html
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