The Moon's Orbit will be Destablized by TransOrbital

> For the majority of the impacts, their lat and long
> are recorded on NASA's website, the sources quoted in
> the posting will tell you those that are known. For
> those that fell due to a decayed orbit, good luck
> finding them. That in itself could provide an
> interesting job for future moon missions. Perhaps
> future lunar archeologists will find them, or perhaps
> TO can get a research grant to find them. Would be
> interesting on a pure academic level...
>

Yes.

I think JPL has pretty good impact points for just about all of the NASA
probes.

It would be interesting for a historian or lunar geologist to contact the
folks over at IKI in Moscow to see what tracking data they have on file for
the old Luna orbital probes. I am not sure if that data has already been
published or not.

With some good models it might be possible to run out orbital decay
predictions and then perhaps predict their impact sites.

Perhaps a nice PhD thesis for somebody.

Regards,

Charles R.