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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. popcorn 'n cheese by BushCheney08 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't that same JiffyPop diagram used for another article recently?

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  3. Lunar Embassy by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  4. Thats awesome news! by Tune · · Score: 5, Funny

    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..

  5. 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

  6. I'll go out on a limb here... by qzulla · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now, I am no astro expert but I *think* I have the answer to this one:

    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.

    qz