I heard it impacted at twice the speed of a bullet
1) why so slow?
2) too bad it had to hit in a deep shadow
#2. Because the water was frozen in the shaded part of
the crater. Or so they suspected.
Please Lord, let there be water on the moon in sufficient
quantities to allow man to live there.
If so it is the next frontier, and Americans
do well on the frontier, the lack of which has
resulted in the malaise of the last few years.
“Moving at a speed of more than 1.5 miles per second, the Centaur hit the lunar surface shortly after 4:31 a.m. Oct. 9, creating an impact that instruments aboard LCROSS observed for approximately four minutes. LCROSS then impacted the surface at approximately 4:36 a.m.”
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/09-131AR.html