SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit organization, is dedicated to landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon. Beresheet was their first attempt at meeting this goal. While the spacecraft did land, it first touched the surface about 1000 meters per second faster than intended. The mishap occurred late in the descent profile when the main engine failed—resulting in a very low-angle (<10°), high-speed impact.
The Beresheet impact occurred on 11 April 2019 and LRO passed overhead 11 days later, allowing LROC to acquire a six-image (three NAC left-right pairs) sequence of the search area. The coordinates of the darkest pixel (lowest reflectance) of the central "smudge" are 32.5956°N, 19.3496°E, with a 20-m (latitude) by 8-m (longitude) 95% confidence interval, estimated from seven images acquired before the impact event (over the course of the LRO mission). The elevation is ~2613 meters, and although the uncertainty is not well constrained at this time, it is likely less than 10 meters.
What really happened is they encountered this.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday May 17 2019, @07:55AM (5 children)
Did they find any Aristarchus submissions? I mean, other than in the Aristarchus Crater, where of course one would find aristarchus submissions, and submit them, since they are from a Crater on the Fucking Moon! Sometimes I think our Soylent Editors are completely Earth bound, like that.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday May 17 2019, @10:24AM (4 children)
Magister should worry more about these:
(Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Aristarchus)#Results [wikipedia.org] )
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday May 17 2019, @10:40AM (3 children)
Are you suggesting I was wrong? Well of course, instruments are much more precise today! Do you not think I keep up?
(I hope you hold Aristotle to the same standard!)
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday May 17 2019, @05:52PM (2 children)
A good craftsman never blames his tools:
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Aristarchus)#Results [wikipedia.org] )
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday May 18 2019, @08:17AM (1 child)
Ah, but a good scientist always mistrusts his instruments, and seeks to develop better ones. And it is a good idea to actually read your citations before you cite them, lest they undercut your case.
your wikipedia source
Funny, Archimedes himself was Greek.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @09:39AM
Yes, I remember laughing for like 10 minutes when I first learnt that.