Friends of the Moon Groups Say 'No' to Future Bombs/Crashes


	Friends of the Moon Groups Say 'No' to Future Bombs/Crashes

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11-6-2009 11:15 PM

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11-7-2009 11:23 PM

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Did you Know that you can put your name into a microchip or cd aboard some of these missions.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/million_names.html

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spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of
lunar material. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091107/sc_space/moonsfriendssaynotofuturelunarcrashes"><P>But the
event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some
quarters about <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/moonsfriendssaynotofuturelunarcrashes/33999777/SIG=128q5n0ho/*http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091012-lcross-crater-images.html" linkindex="73"><SPAN id="lw_1257552339_0" class="yshortcuts">"bombing"
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