Jan 3 1970
From The Space Library
Photos of falling meteorite were taken by automatic cameras at Hominy, Okla., and Pleasanton, Kans., field stations of Prairie Network operated for NASA by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). Fireball was observed over large area of midwestern U.S. Observatory scientist Dr. Richard E. McCrosky later predicted from film records probable impact point near Lost City, Okla. Meteorite entered earth's atmosphere at 56 300 km per hr (35 000 mph), creating trail that was visible for nine seconds. (SAO Release 70-01; McElheny, Boston Globe; 1/20/70)
Accuracy of Apollo 12 LM lunar landing was described by Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr., in post-mission report from KSC published by the New Yorker. After successful completion of mission, Cooper had talked with Flight Dynamics Officer David Reed, who had been in charge of LM trajectory during lunar landing. Cooper reported that Reed and other flight engineers had been "too accurate in plotting their trajectory, for Commander (now Captain) Charles Conrad, Jr., who was at the controls, had to change the LM's landing point at the last minute. 'He was afraid he'd land right on top of the Surveyor if he kept on going according to plan, and later, when we fed the data from the LM into a computer, we found that if he'd gone on in the way he was, he would have hit it,' Reed told me." (New Yorker, 1/3/70, 46-56)
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