From: "David Illig" <usenet@davidillig.com>

Date: April 12, 2006 12:02:52 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: NASA to crash probes on moon in water hunt

Milton Aupperle wrote:

I saw this mentioned in the sci.astro.amateur newsgroup.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12257161/

If the plume of the imact does sreach 60 miles up off the moon, it

might be detectable from earth.

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There's a science fiction story here. The spacecraft crashes through six feet of ice that was 

protecting the last reserve of liquid water on the moon -- kept liquid by some SF heat 

source. The last water on the moon -- a huge reserve -- boils off into space before the hole 

can freeze over again...

David