Watch the Moon, Sat Night

[Pangloss]

We have a thread on this on the Astronomy board already, but I thought it interesting enough to go ahead and mention it here. The ESA is crashing its SMART-1 probe into the lunar surface in a dark region of the moon facing the Earth, tomorrow night (Saturday night) at 10:41pm Pacific, 1:41am Eastern time. The crash supposedly will produce enough light to see it by if you're watching at the right moment. (Ironically the crash will only be visible here in the Americas -- Europeans won't get to see it!)

 

Some info here, including visual aids:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/30aug_smart1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_1