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Close ✕LCROSS Centaur impacts the permanently shadowed floor of Cabeus crater
2009-10-09 11:31 UTC · Recorded · space
The source states this happened, and its date is not in the future. The word the source used for it is historical.
A spent Centaur upper stage struck Cabeus at roughly 2.5 km/s. The trailing shepherding spacecraft flew through the ejecta plume for about four minutes, returning spectra, before impacting itself.
- Source
- Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) · Colaprete, A. et al., Science 330(6003), 463–468, 22 October 2010
- Standing
- This record: verified · publisher: verified
- How it arrived
- Editorial — A dated record from the Richseen Atlas editorial corpus, written and cited by a curator. Not captured from anywhere, and not live.
- Where
- At a canonical Atlas object, placed and checked by a curator.
- Subject
- MISSION_LCROSS · Cabeus Crater · SITE_LUNAR_SOUTH_POLE
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