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Scientists Witness Meteor Strike on the Moon
Lonesome Squash writes "BBC reports that scientists have seen a smallish meteor strike on the moon. Impact only equivalent to 70kg of TNT, but still, you wouldn't want to have it land on your moonbase. At that size, it's kind of neat they saw it at all."
Wasn't that same JiffyPop diagram used for another article recently?
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The meteor must have destroyed the moon buggy that we are searching all along! In your face, conspiracy theorists!
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Danm it! I paid $20 dollars for that plot an all I got was this lousy meteorite hit. It's always the same. The minute you buy, some chump down the street gets blown away or some meteorite just crashes all over prime development land. And me with all these solar power bills to pay.
What next!
May the Maths Be with you!
This proves that - apparently - scientists have finally been able to *exactly* reproduce previous empirical results. Just imagine: not only is the impact exactly the same and on the same spot; on top of that the same musings appear on /. !
Amazing..
Don't be silly. The last one was about an explosion on the moon. That's exciting stuff. This one is simply about an ordinary old meteor strike.
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And I thought my Meteor Strike didn't work. I just need to polish up my aiming.
The NY City subway drivers union filed a complaint against whomever is hurling rocks at the moon, claiming they're just trying to biggyback on the success of their recent strike.
Intelligent Rock Hurler was not available for comment. His coworkers who plot out the precise trajectories of rocks that result in these strikes also refused to talk to our reporters.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
M-O-O-N, that spells explosion...
I agree. Those 5 bright pixels are stunning.
Much science data is boring to non-scientists and the visuals help engage the casual reader.
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However, as Nasa plans to return to the Moon by 2020, the agency says it needs to understand what happens after lunar impacts in order to protect astronauts.
I am guessing that there will be a crater of some sort after the impact. Maybe some floating dust. That sort of thing.
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I remember it well, it was only 7 years ago, but somehow it seems more like 30.
He's five, so I doubt he's reading Slashdot (yet)...
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Yes, but look at the misleading title:
I mean, when did we get scientists back on the moon in the first place? And was the meteor picketing, or was this a sit-down strike?
Corrected headline: