Astronomer catches meteorite smashing into the moon (video)
WEBMar 10, 2023 · A Japanese astronomer captured the telltale flash of a meteorite impacting the moon, causing a brief flash on our celestial neighbor's nightside. Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City...
Lunar Impact Videos - NASA
WEBOct 24, 2023 · This video shows several lunar impact flashes and other events detected at the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO).
Colossal asteroid impact forever changed the balance of the moon
WEBApr 12, 2022 · One side of the moon is littered with far more craters than the other, and researchers finally know why: A massive asteroid that slammed into the moon around 4.3 billion years ago...
Brilliant Flash Reveals The Moment a Meteor Smacks Hard Into The Moon
WEBMar 14, 2023 · The Moon 's bombardment is ongoing, and the rain of debris is constant. Most of it goes unseen, but a particularly bright impact flash was caught by astronomer Daichi Fujii of the Hiratsuka City Museum in late February, using Moon-viewing equipment at his home in Hiratsuka.
Watch the moon get rocked by a meteorite during this weekend's …
WEBJan 22, 2019 · Jose Madiedo, an astronomer at the University of Huelva in Spain, says the glint was caused by a meteorite that slammed into the lunar surface right as the moon became completely engulfed in...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially ... - CNN
WEBMay 1, 2024 · An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon, but exactly how it ended up zooming through the solar system has remained a mystery. Now, researchers say they’ve...
NASA's DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon
WEBAug 23, 2024 · When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly deformed -- creating a large crater and...
A chunk of the moon appears to be orbiting near Earth, new study ...
WEBOct 26, 2023 · The asteroid Kamo'oalewa may have been ejected by a massive impact on Earth's moon, a new simulation has revealed.
NASA’s DART Impact: Asteroid Moon Permanently Transformed
WEBAug 27, 2024 · A University of Maryland-led study reveals new details about asteroid dynamics following NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally collided with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022. The impact significantly altered Dimorphos’ trajectory and shape, leading to unexpected gravitational behaviors.
Evidence of dinosaur-killing asteroid impact found on the moon
WEBSep 28, 2022 · Asteroid impacts on the moon millions of years ago correspond with large space rock strikes here on Earth — including the massive impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. The finding reveals...