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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."
This would be a dupe. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/2 4/0844222&tid=160&tid=14
How they get that from that. Is there some kind of science behind it, or is it just guesswork?
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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!
That no one is visiting the moon anytime soon; well hopefully China. The amount of meteors that must be around could probable find ones like that rock with worms in it.
Would settle the score about earth contamination at least.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Netcraft confirms, secret CIA bases on the moon.
Bush shakes fist.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
To me sounds like Sephiroth has been defeated again
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..
There is an urban legend that at one point, the US Department of Defense actually wanted to NUKE the moon. I think the idea was supposedly that they would nuke a point on the moon that would appear to be one of the edges of the moon, as viewed from Moscow, so Muscovites (including the KGB) could actually see the blast with the naked eye. This was, of course, to be a demonstration of American military might designed to impress and frighten the USSR.
Can anyone comment upon the truth (or lack thereof) of this particular rumor?
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
(For those who R'd TFA)
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Don't you love cool images that make you say "wow!" and have a tiny caption at the bottom, saying:
"The impact may have looked something like this" or
"artist's rendering of
I think I'd stay with the real thing, thank you.
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
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.
It happened on November 7th, but maybe it was November 5th on the Lunar calendar? Remember the Guy! (400th anniversary.)
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Just use the word small, smallish just means rather small. Now the word small just looks weird.
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I guess that lunar Ben Affleck and lunar Bruce Willis and their ragtag group of lunar drilling guys failed to blow up the asteroid.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
M-O-O-N, that spells explosion...
Last night, out of the blue, my son wanted to know about craters on the moon and meteors, so we got out some astronomy books and chatted about the comet that crashed into Jupiter.
He's five, so I doubt he's reading Slashdot (yet)...
Which is pretty good for a little 12 centimeter (anything is a WMD--imagine if it had been a whole Volkswagen (VWMD)!
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What was more interesting from the article, was the toxicity of Moon Dust and the fact that it's highly abrasive, sticks to everything and gets into everything because it's so light.
Seems back when the contest was announced for an autonomous robot to pick up regolite having to contend with the dust should be the greatest consideration.
In organic gardening, I used fossilized diatoms (diatomaceous earth, often used in pool filters) to fight worms, as it is to them like rolling around in broken glass.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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.
We know the moon gets struck often, or atleast, that was the thinking when I was in middle school, and that the Earth's atmosphere protects us from similar events.
What I would like to know is, had this same object entered Earth's atmosphere, would it have made it to the surface or burt up? How much atmosphere (as a percentage of Earth's where Earth's = 100%) would be required to "protect" surface objects from significant damage?
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
And they smacked you down to -1 too. Seems the eds spend more time seeking revenge than checking their stories. If you'd been Roland Piquepaille, they wouldn't have been so cavalier.
Cheers,
Ian
I've located a Hubble image of the impact damage. Pretty impressive!
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Watching the moon is no doubt useful, but to prepare for protecting astronauts against meteor strikes? That seems like a waste of time. I doubt there will be colonies on the moon in the next 100 years and even then, the cost of building a structure that can withstand the force of 70KG of TNT seems unreasonable. If we do live on the moon, it will be a bare bones outpost and the people that go there will be cowboys with little concern for death.
What? Every science fiction movie I've seen has space sounds. Well, except for 2001, but I think it was just a bad copy and had the space sounds erased.
... at least ONE moon landing was real....
'cue dramatic music' There goes the moon ! Wait, this should have happened 6 years ago.. Curse you !!!!!
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
I meant to hit the Tycho crater with my driver! Oh well, time to go jouncing through the rough to go find my ball..
They didn't mention anything in the warranty about hitting balls in 1/6th gravity..
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
Wow. Pass the hookah, moderator dude.
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Ewww! Its bad enough that parents are taking videos of your birth and plastering them all over the internet, and showing them to your friends during your birthday - I really don't want to see videos of them conceiving me!
I mean, okay, in my head I can understand they once were my age, they obviously did what any other couple with kids did, but I don't want to be invited to that party. Nobody should see their parents having sex past a certain age - it takes all the fun out of it.
They aren't guessing. It looked exactly like that. Everyone knows that the moon being made of green cheese is a myth, as the picture clearly illustrates, the cheese is yellow. Probably chedder.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
For all we know the empire has sent a probe searching for the rebel base. Check this meteor impact we must.
I have been looking on http://moon.google.com/ and I can't for the life of me find any new craters.
The Russians got even further along this kind of thinking. Look into the "E-4 project" (I won't post my favorite link because while it might help my karma *here* it certainly won't help with my karma with the server owner to /. him!)
It was actually not that bad an idea, before the advent of reliable complex telemetry systems, it was a fairly reasonable way to prove you had done it.
Brett
This is surely a warning against the spirit of the antichrist that has fouled the scientific community since the heathen known as Charles A. Darwin. When you walk away from the path of righteousness, you bring a curse down upon your own house. Those meteor impacts may be the curse that rains down among the people who oppose Intelligent Design in favor of the lie of evolution.
Wait, wait, wait... are you saying that Darwin is still alive, and living on the moon?
That's awesome!
The enemies of Democracy are
Judging from that artists impression perhaps it was actually a strike from a batter pudding http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/batter.html.
Squirrel!
Well, that's basically what happened. The ol'Brigadeer and some of the lads commandeered one of Sir Richard's new spaceships, loaded it up with high-ex and launched it moonwards to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of religiously-flavoured terrorism. It was a lovely sight on takeoff, and the bonus reward two days later when it hit target was quite delightful. O'course, we had to hush it up - everyone these days is convinced UNIT doesn't even exist thanks to some really cunning TV propaganda work - but it's nice to see that someone out there noticed.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
It's a TRAP!
The irony of posting the fiftieth "It's a dupe! Proves the editors aren't reading" post just seems completely lost on some people...
You mean the editors can read?
This was clearly filmed in an underwater TV studio. Current meteor technology is not up to the task of successfully hitting the Moon, and why does the crosshair on the photo appear behind the meteor?
Absolutely is this story a dupe. Just see this link,
and do a quick scan for the 5th decent-sized paragraph, that starts with this guy's name: Gervasius
Because when I used to play Wing Commander, they would start out slowly. Next thing you knew, you were in a complete metor shower.
Fun in Wing Commander, bad news for Earthlings.
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This isn't the first time that people have seen meteors hitting the moon. In the 1500's I think it was, some monks in Europe saw what may have been a meteor/asteroid hitting the moon. It was mentioned in one movies/episodes of the Cosmos series. Though I have heard that some people think that it was just a metor breaking up in the Earth's atmosphere and that it just appeared to be over the moon because of their position. Also, some time around the 50's I think(either in the 40's, 50's, or 60's I think I'm not sure), a Japanese scientist saw a small flash of light that was almost certainly a meteor. I almost think that he had a picture of it as well, though I'm not certain.
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Dupes are common because not everyone sees everything the first time around, nor reads the archives. They happen. If the 'wasted space' is something to complain about, consider how many whiners waste space calling DUPE to every dupe, creating dupedupes. Far more than the dupes themselves.
/. rather than doing something productive, or if it's just whining for its own sake with no constructive purpose behind it at all, I suggest you bend your fingers over backwards and super glue your fingernails to the back of your wrists. And I mean that in a nice way.
Of course if complaining about dupes is a sort of conspicuous consumption behavior where you get to show how much time you have to keep track of what's on
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I had a friend, a physics prof at Hope College, who said he saw Lunar Transcient Phenomena when he was a student at Caltech. In the years afterwards I've never heard any more about LTP. Now I'm wondering if LTP is the same thing as these asteroid collisions we're hearing about.
Anybody know?
Just so long as they weren't playing with TORCHWOOD again.
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