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Scientists Witness Meteor Strike on the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-what-they-want-us-to-think dept.

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."

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  1. Dupe by __aacvzh55 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This would be a dupe. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/2 4/0844222&tid=160&tid=14

  2. Re:Speaking of explosions on the moon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quick Google search found it. It looks like it was true. Carl Sagan even worked as part of the project.

    http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/nuke_moon_0 00514.html