Oct. 9, 2009 UT LCROSS Impact Imaging

Contact Information

• Palomar dataroom phone: 760-642-2105
• WebEx telecon starts at 18:30 10/8/09 PDT.
• Participating Observatories (.doc)

Schedule (Times UT, updated 10/6/09)

• ~02:00 Spacecraft separation
• 08:30 Acquire moon; determine best feature to use for AO lock
• 10:30 Begin impact imaging sequence
• 11:31:19 Centaur impact
• 11:35:45 Shepherding spacecraft impact
• 12:00 End impact imaging sequence
• 14:00 NASA ARC press conference (submit graphics by 12:30)

Finder Charts

Ephemeris, Timelines, Etc.

• Range to impact site is 3.66936 x 10^5 km.
  • 40" field of view = 71.2 km.
  • .10" resolution = 178 m.
• cabeus_ephem.txt: Ephemeris for moon lat: 310.95, lon: -84.70, alt:0 km.

• NASA ARC ground-based coordination timeline (.xls)

Links

• NASA ARC LCROSS web pages