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SMART-1 hits the Moon

LUNAR FLASH: As planned, Europe's SMART-1 spacecraft crashed into the Moon this morning, Sept. 3rd, at 0542 UT. The resulting flash was too faint for most backyard telescopes, but a team of astronomers using the big 3.6m CFHT telescope in Hawaii did manage to photograph the explosion.

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Entry posted by HotTopicsJournalist on Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 17:04. Filed under Other Missions. The author does not allow comments to this entry.