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Canaveral, Florida (Reuters) - The automated telescopes that monitor
the moon has captured the image of a stone weighing 40 kg has hit the
lunar surface and creating a flash of light, NASA scientists said in a
telephone interview.
The blast, which occurred on March 17 it was the biggest since the eight-year NASA observing collisions meteroid to the moon. So far it has been more than 300 recorded collisions month to NASA.
"The rock exploded into a flash of almost 10 times brighter than anything we've seen before," said Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Agency (MEO) at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
A NASA satellite orbiting the moon now chasing the newly formed crater that scientists estimated berlebar 20 meters.
Flashes were so bright as to who was watching the moon could see the impact it without a telescope, NASA said.
After reviewing digital recordings made by one of the telescopes for the program, the scientists ensure that the stone was 0.3 meters in diameter, 90 123 km per hour speed so hit the moon and explode with the power of five tons of TNT.
That same night, the camera detects an unusual meteor many who also headed the Earth's atmosphere. Most of the meteors disappear before reaching the Earth's land.
But last February, a 20-meter diameter asteroid exploded in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thus damaging buildings and broke the glass and made 1,500 people were injured. It is the largest objects to hit Earth since 1908.
Russian fireball magnitude larger and energy 100,000 times greater than the Moon's collision, said Cooke.
He believes the collision on the moon and a meteor shower on March 17 relates to the Earth. Space rocks that slide together and spread beyond an area of space to be smaller stones and dust.
"We continue to look at the signs of this happening over the next year when the Earth-Moon system passing through the same region of space," Cooke said in a telephone interview.
Sources: http://www.realifactpost.com/2013/05/sebuah-meteor-menabrak-bulan.html
The blast, which occurred on March 17 it was the biggest since the eight-year NASA observing collisions meteroid to the moon. So far it has been more than 300 recorded collisions month to NASA.
"The rock exploded into a flash of almost 10 times brighter than anything we've seen before," said Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Agency (MEO) at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
A NASA satellite orbiting the moon now chasing the newly formed crater that scientists estimated berlebar 20 meters.
Flashes were so bright as to who was watching the moon could see the impact it without a telescope, NASA said.
After reviewing digital recordings made by one of the telescopes for the program, the scientists ensure that the stone was 0.3 meters in diameter, 90 123 km per hour speed so hit the moon and explode with the power of five tons of TNT.
That same night, the camera detects an unusual meteor many who also headed the Earth's atmosphere. Most of the meteors disappear before reaching the Earth's land.
But last February, a 20-meter diameter asteroid exploded in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thus damaging buildings and broke the glass and made 1,500 people were injured. It is the largest objects to hit Earth since 1908.
Russian fireball magnitude larger and energy 100,000 times greater than the Moon's collision, said Cooke.
He believes the collision on the moon and a meteor shower on March 17 relates to the Earth. Space rocks that slide together and spread beyond an area of space to be smaller stones and dust.
"We continue to look at the signs of this happening over the next year when the Earth-Moon system passing through the same region of space," Cooke said in a telephone interview.
Sources: http://www.realifactpost.com/2013/05/sebuah-meteor-menabrak-bulan.html
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