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Spanish astronomers see the largest moon fall on the moon a meteorite of all whose fall, scientists observed in the “live” – a stone the size of a small car fell into a Sea of Clouds and left a 40-meter crater, according to an article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Authors, Professor Jose Madiedo and his colleagues from the MIDAS project (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System), using two telescopes in Spain constantly monitors the moon, tracking outbreaks when meteorites fall.
On the evening of September 11, 2013, they witnessed an unusual bright and long flash: its brightness reached 2.9 stellar magnitude, and it lasted 8 seconds. “At that moment, I realized that I saw a very rare and unusual event, “says Magiedo, the words which leads the British Royal Astronomical society.
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Scientists estimate that the power of the explosion that occurred in the Sea The clouds amounted to about 15.6 tons of TNT, the fallen meteorite had a mass of about 450 kilograms and a size of 1.4 up to 0.6 meters, and its speed reached 17 meters per second. The size the resulting crater could be from 47 to 56 meters. According to authors of the article, a fallen body could be associated with a meteor shower epsilon-perseids.
Previously, the most noticeable similar event was considered fixed NASA experts in May 2013 the fall of an object weighing about 40 kilograms that caused an explosion of 5 tons in TNT equivalent.
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