Meteoroid Impacts The Moon

[yevaud]

<b>A Meteoroid Hits the Moon</b><br /><br /><i>June 13, 2006: There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.<br /><br />NASA astronomers watched it form: "On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope."<br /><br />Lunar impacts have been seen before--"stuff hits the Moon all the time," notes Cooke--but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress:</i><br /><br />Video<br /><br />Full Story <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[cyclonebuster]

Oh! Don't worry thats just another SW-3 fragment!!

 

[dragon04]

That was sweet! Nice catch and thanks for the post. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[michaelmozina]

That was really awesome. Thanks for the links. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. - Kristian Birkeland </div>

 

[harmonicaman]

A.L.P.O. has lots of information and more videos of Lunar meteorite impacts.

 

[abq_farside]

I had often wondered how often we see lunar impacts. Apparently quite a bit more often than I thought. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em><font size="1" color="#000080">Don't let who you are keep you from becoming who you want to be!</font></em></p> </div>

 

[cyclonebuster]

So why does it take over a month to release such a harmless story?

 

[qso1]

More than likely, they want to be sure of all the pertinent info before releasing it to the public. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[sponge]

Someone asked the question once, when was / or has any body seen a large impact explosion on the moon, the answer that came back was : That in 1150 some monks in Tibet witnessed an almighty explosion on the moon, has anybody else heard this story or confirm the story. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><u>SPONGE</u></em></p> </div>

 

[harmonicaman]

Link<br /><br />There is anecdotal evidence that early chinese observers witnessed a meteorite impact and described it as "The moon grew a limb" (describing a cloud of ejecta), but I couldn't find the specifics...