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    Impact Schedule: 01 September 2006

    01 Sep 2006

    Revised impact predictions have been generated based on the SMART-1 orbit determination from 1 September 2006.

    The calculations include a scheduled manoeuvre in the night of 1/2 September to raise the perilune by 600 m in order to maximise the chance to impact at the nominal perilune.

    Projected Impact Trajectory and Lunar Topography

    The longitude and latitude are planetographic and expressed w.r.t. to the IAU 1991 moon fixed system.

    The height is relative to the DEM model derived from the Clementine LIDAR data.

    Perilune Passage: Nominal Impact Orbit -2
    Time: 2006/09/02 19:32:56.631 (UTC)
    Longitude 319.26963343790°
    Latitude -36.48068123967°
    Height (topograph) 3336.417 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 18506.4917583 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -330645.8322386 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -182194.4186395 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Perilune Passage: Nominal Impact Orbit -1
    Time: 2006/09/03 00:37:54.709 (UTC)
    Longitude 316.50051484751°
    Latitude -36.46925842646°
    Height (topograph) 2056.054 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 37278.7966615 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -328360.7706147 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -180782.7010628 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Nominal Impact Location
    Time: 2006/09/03 05:42:20.320 (UTC)
    Longitude 313.80504815341°
    Latitude -34.26931947746°
    Height (topograph) 0.000 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 55950.0563311 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -325240.8796856 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -178858.5549383 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Perilune Passage: Nominal Impact Orbit
    Time: 2006/09/03 05:42:52.504 (UTC)
    Longitude 313.73194150408°
    Latitude -36.45157493490°
    Height (topograph) -215.199 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 55964.5352942 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -325246.2787471 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -178917.4134305 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Perilune Passage: Nominal Impact Orbit +1
    Time: 2006/09/03 10:47:49.998 (UTC)
    Longitude 310.96356203210°
    Latitude -36.42740130684°
    Height (topograph) -2149.739 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 74515.7058281 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -321301.7515481 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -176598.6075025 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Perilune Passage: Nominal Impact Orbit +2
    Time: 2006/09/03 15:52:47.171 (UTC)
    Longitude 308.19531851654°
    Latitude -36.39619940332°
    Height (topograph) -3292.450 (m)
    Position vector in Mean Equatorial 2000, Earth centred:
    X-Axis Component 92883.6287530 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Y-Axis Component -316528.7971719 (km) (MEQ2T)
    Z-Axis Component -173827.5476146 (km) (MEQ2T)


    Last Update: 01 Sep 2006

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