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@Article{Wright:2011:PLI, author = "Ernie Wright", title = "Preparing for a lunar impact", journal = j-COMP-GRAPHICS, volume = "45", number = "1", pages = "4:1--4:??", month = feb, year = "2011", CODEN = "CGRADI, CPGPBZ", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1982562.1982569", ISSN = "0097-8930", bibdate = "Fri May 13 11:58:43 MDT 2011", bibsource = "http://portal.acm.org/; http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/siggraph2010.bib", abstract = "A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith. The effects of the impact were captured by sensors on board a shepherding satellite following four minutes behind the Centaur.", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, articleno = "4", fjournal = "Computer Graphics", journal-URL = "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J166", }