If you haven’t heard of this yet NASA is sending the LCROSS booster rocket into crater Cabeus at 4:31 am PDT (11:31 UT) on Friday, October 9th, 2009 (that’s TOMORROW!), followed by the LCROSS mothership four minutes later. Lots of professional and amateur astronomers will be watching the show through their telescopes. Here is NASA’s LCROSS Viewer’s Guide and a NASA animation on what will happen. Unfortunately the eastern US will not get a good view of this due to the time of when the event is to happen. I’m sure I’ll catch it on a video somewhere. There will be plenty of places to watch it!

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