Astronomer catches meteorite smashing into the moon ...
Mar 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...
Space rock slams into moon! Explosion seen from Japan
Explosion seen from Japan. Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes on Feb. 23, 2023.
Scientists say they've traced the origins of a potentially ...
May 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...
Lunar Impact Videos - NASA
Oct 24, 2023 · This video shows several lunar impact flashes and other events detected at the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO).
Watch the moon get rocked by a meteorite during this weekend's …
Jan 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...
Jupiter’s Main Moon Was Struck By A Colossal Asteroid ... - Forbes
Sep 3, 2024 · Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth, according to new research.
Colossal asteroid impact forever changed the balance of the moon
Apr 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...
Gigantic asteroid impact shifted the axis of solar system's biggest ...
Sep 3, 2024 · Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher has realized that the solar system's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the ...
NASA's DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid …
Aug 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 reshaping...
NASA's Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth's Asteroid Impact ...
Jan 17, 2019 · Large craters formed by asteroid impacts in the last billion years are covered by boulders and rocks, while older craters have few rocks, Diviner data showed. This happens because impacts excavate lunar boulders that are ground into soil over tens to hundreds of millions of years by a constant rain of tiny meteorites.