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Maybe more fair to say his ashes were scattered on the moon? > The mission ended on July 31, 1999 at 9:52:02 UT (5:52:02 EDT) when Lunar Prospector was steered
by jessriedel 8y ago
Maybe more fair to say his ashes were scattered on the moon?
> The mission ended on July 31, 1999 at 9:52:02 UT (5:52:02 EDT) when Lunar Prospector was steered into a deliberate collision in a permanently shadowed area of the Shoemaker crater near the lunar south pole. It was hoped that the impact would liberate water vapor from the suspected ice deposits in the crater and that the plume would be detectable from Earth; however, no such plume was observed.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoDoesn't sound like they were scattered, if we're being factual about it. "The only man whose ashes are in proximity to the lunar surface" in a canister, in a probe. A long way off being buried there though.
- Medox 8y agoit we're being factual about it: "...a way to get some of Shoemaker’s remains to the Moon’s surface". But then again, the title "Almost all the remains of Eugene Shoemaker are still the first ones being almost buried on the Moon" would not sound very good.
- sigi45 8y agoWouldn't it settle on the moon?
- jessriedel 8y agoYou think the ashes are still in the canister? The probe hit the surface while traveling more than a kilometer per second. It would have to be some canister....