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Bright explosion on the Moon can be seen from the Earth
Video of Lunar Explosion released by NASA
Bright explosion on the Moon can be seen from the Earth
NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office is reporting the discovery of the brightest impact seen on the moon in the eight year history of the monitoring program. A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, igniting an explosion so bright that anyone looking up at the right moment might have spotted it, NASA announced Friday. Some 300 lunar impact events have been logged over the years but this latest impact, from March 17, is considered many orders of magnitude brighter than anything else observed. The blast lasted only about a single second and shone like a 4th magnitude star. It was bright enough to see with just the unaided eye.
The NASA monitoring program’s 14-inch telescope was the first to snag an image of the lunar explosion. Analyzing the
images, researchers estimate that the object probably weighed in at 40 kg (88 pounds) and was about 0.4 meters (1.4 feet) wide. It crashed into the moon at speeds of 56,000 miles (90,000 km) per hour, releasing as much energy as five tons of TNT.Video of Lunar Explosion released by NASA
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