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2009 ( MMIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium , the 9th year of the 21st century , and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
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Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.