The impact site is a 60-mile-wide hole, which lies just a short distance from the Shackleton crater - the proposed location for Nasa's manned lunar base, which it hopes to have completed by 2024.
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The Shot Is The Pandemic - Part 1 of 2: Swine Flu Vaccines
NASA's LCROSS spacecraft and its Centaur booster rocket are on course for a Friday morning impact in crater Cabeus near the Moon's south pole.
The Centaur will strike first at 11:31:19 UT (4:31:19 PDT), followed by the LCROSS mothership at 11:35:45 UT (4:35:45).
The spectacular double-impact will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
NASA hopes many amateur astronomers will be watching on Friday.
"The more eyes the better," says LCROSS team member Brian Day of NASA/Ames.
"We've never done this before and surprises are possible."
US sky watchers west of the Mississippi river are favored with darkness and good views of the Moon at the time of the impacts.
A 6.4-magnitude quake has hit the Santa Cruz islands in the South Pacific, seismologists said, a day after a series of huge quakes sparked a region-wide tsunami alert.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee says U.S. President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
George: The MAN has done NOTHING?!?
Well, as I said it, it rings NO BELL to me ...
U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
And they did it on purpose.
Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when they estimated more than 1 million were infected in this country. The number of deaths has been sitting at more than 600 since early September.
George: Example of a CON-CONsPiracy, to set you up ...
ConCons ... never heard of it?
;-)
Now we know why America's oligarchs are fighting to keep the rest of us stuck in the world's worst health care system: the more we die, the more billions Wall Street will earn.
A recent article in The New York Times exposed how Wall Street is licking its lips over a new scheme to make hundreds of billions in profits by creating financial instruments that will profit off of millions of terminally-ill Americans' agony, desperation, and death. The only thing standing in the way of this massive new Wall Street scheme is the kind of health care reform that might allow Americans to live longer lives.
Yep, this is what we spent trillions of dollars bailing out Wall Street for: so that they can kill us for profit.