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).
Earth Is Getting a New 'Mini Moon' for the Next Two Months, …
WEB1 day ago · Juan Gartner via Getty Images. In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s gravitational cradle. Meet asteroid 2024 ...
Earth is about to have a temporary ‘mini-moon’ | CNN
WEB2 days ago · The last complete image of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, taken by the DRACO imager on NASA's DART mission from ~7 miles (12 kilometers) from the asteroid and 2 seconds before impact.
Photos Show Drama of DART Asteroid Impact (Updated)
WEBSep 27, 2022 · NASA has now released images from both space telescopes, though no word yet from Lucy. These Hubble images, taken through an ultraviolet filter 22 minutes, 5 hours, and 8.2 hours, respectively DART's impact, show expanding plumes of ejecta from the body of Dimorphos.
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out …
WEBApr 23, 2024 · Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the...
Earth Is Temporarily Getting a Second Moon | TIME
WEB3 days ago · Daniel Knighton—Getty Images. ... PT5— which is what scientists think is an asteroid but have dubbed a “mini-moon”—will be looping around Earth. ... a piece of ejecta from an impact on ...
What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission - The New York Times
WEBSep 26, 2022 · After the demise of DART, there will still be more photos of Dimorphos. A small satellite, or CubeSat, named LICIACube will be sending back photos of the asteroid before and after DART’s...
DART’s data verify its smashing success at deflecting asteroid moon ...
WEBApr 19, 2023 · Viewers worldwide were captivated by images transmitted by the DART spacecraft as it approached the asteroid moon known as Dimorphos. Five papers 1 – 5 in this issue characterize the impact and...
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...