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Lunar Impact Mission Update

Subject: Lunar Impact Mission Update
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:33:27 -0500

NASA Science News for August 11, 2008

Today's story from Science@NASA tells of NASA's plans to find water on the Moon by crashing a spacecraft into the lunar surface. The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS for short) is on track for a 2009 launch and subsequent plunge into a crater near one of the Moon's poles. Amateur astronomers may be able to observe the impact through backyard telescopes.

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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11aug_lcross.htm?list1052465

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