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Published online 31 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060828-12
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How to spy on SMART's lunar impact.
The lunar orbiter SMART-1 is due to crash-land on the Moon on 2 or 3 September: dates chosen to help ground telescopes spy on the impact.
The craft will smack into the Lake of Excellence, an area with interesting mineralogy, at a time when this falls just on the dark side of the Moon's border between day and night.
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