Meteorite witnessed hitting Moon during lunar eclipse - video

[gary]

Chris Baraniuk writes in New Scientist that a meteorite has been observed
impacting into the Moon during the period of the most recent lunar eclipse.



Story and video here :-
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-mondays-total-lunar-eclipse/

[Dennis]

Thanks Gary - exciting news indeed.

Cheers

Dennis

[leon]

Wow thanks indeed one dose not see that very often

Leon

[gary]

Lisa Grossman reports in Science (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/basketball-sized-rock-hit-moon-during-last-lunar-eclipse)that astronomers estimate the impact
probably released the equivalent of about half a ton of TNT in energy.



Story here :-
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/basketball-sized-rock-hit-moon-during-last-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

[Kilanya]

How cool is that! I love that someone is always watching and things like this get captured.

[Wavytone]

An impact was photographed during an eclipse in 1979... at a time when it was understood to be possible but very very unlikely to be seen.