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Date: 01 Sep 2006 07:12:56
From: Paul Schlyter
Subject: Re: Smart-1 crash
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In article <dxNJg.246$Hr1.194@clgrps12 >, MA-MA <am@telusplanet.net> 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)
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