Lisa Grossman reports in Science that astronomers estimate the impact
probably released the equivalent of about half a ton of TNT in energy.
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Originally Posted by Lisa Grossman
That much energy could be released by an object of a size between a softball and a basketball, and with the mass of a few cans of paint (7 to 40 kilograms), smacking into the moon at 13.8 kilometers per second, the team reports in a paper posted January 28 at arXiv.org.
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Using those observations, Zuluaga and his team estimated that the impact probably left a crater between 5 and 10 meters wide. That scar could be spotted with a current or future lunar orbiter.
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Story here :-
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...-lunar-eclipse
Paper (free) at arXiv.org "Location, orbit and energy of a meteoroid impacting the moon during the Lunar Eclipse of January 21, 2019"
by Zuluaga et. al. :-
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09573
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Originally Posted by Zuluaga et. al.
These results arose from a timely collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers which highlight the importance of citizen science in contemporary astronomy.
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