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It was visible from Earth to the naked eye
On the night of May 17, NASA equipment, which has been monitoring meteorites falling to the moon as part of the Lunar Impact program Monitoring, recorded a powerful outbreak in the region of the Sea of Rains. By brightness, it is 10 times higher than all previously observed. how astronomers claim the flash was visible from Earth to the naked eye. Unless, of course, someone was lucky enough to pay attention to her. According to Ron Suggs, an analyst at Marshall Center analyst at the Marshall Space Flight Center), which is the first noticed a flare of fire, a meteorite of diameters about half a meter and weighing 40 kilograms. He crashed into the surface of our natural satellite at a speed of 90 thousand kilometers in hour. The energy of the explosion amounted to 5 tons of TNT. On the a funnel of about 20 meters in diameter remained on the surface.
A photo open source Flash storyboard Photo: NASA NASA counts meteorites falling on the moon. Tracks them by flashes on surface. Thus, experts estimate the density of meteorites flows with which the Earth meets. After all, they hit our planet and moon almost simultaneously. So this time together with a lunar flare astronomers recorded the entry of several meteorites in the Earth’s atmosphere. It seems that we were visited by a small Roy.
A photo from open sources Americans have recorded all meteorites, fallen to the moon over the past 8 years. The one that spawned the brightest flash, fell in the Sea of Rains (red box) Photo: NASA V NASA plans to pinpoint the crash site soon meteorite and photograph the resulting crater from the side of the probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which is now located on orbit the moon.
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