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New Crater On Moon Caught On Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-the-moon-alice dept.

From A Far Away Land writes "NASA has released a video clip of a meteorite striking the surface of the Moon. From the article: 'On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy -- that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.'"

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  1. Craters Gone Wild? by rramdin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Probably about 10 times more interesting but half as riveting as Girls Gone Wild.

  2. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    wait, I don't understand... how many joules are in a library of congress?

    1. Re:Obligatory by igny · · Score: 4, Funny

      Everyone knows that energy is calculated in BigMacs (229 of delicious kcal). That explosion was mere 17,743 BigMacs.

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  3. Where's the sound? by SamMichaels · · Score: 4, Funny

    When it first loaded I thought, "where's the damn sound"?

    Then I saw it was a gif...and thought, "why is it an animated picture and not a video with sound?"

    Then I realized I needed more caffeine. Oops.

    1. Re:Where's the sound? by digitalchinky · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where is the kaboom? There was meant to be an earth shattering kaboom....

  4. Re:Conspiracy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You fool. They didn't fake the moon landing. They didn't have to. They travel there on a daily basis with technology reverse engineered from the Roswell crash. They are preparing us for additional "meteor" strikes which will actually be missiles designed to knock out secret alien and ex-soviet moon bases!

  5. Terrorists on the moon? by xkr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which terrorist group is NASA blaming ?

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  6. "that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT" by zegebbers · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's all well and good, but how many football fields was the impact?

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  7. and in news just to hand... by Audent · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA has released a video clip of its server being struck with 17 billion hits all at the same time.

    "That's about the same as 4 tons of TNT, or an entire Slashdot community" says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.

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  8. Re:So what are the odds by Eideewt · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should surround the Earth with a protective blanket of some sort to protect ourselves from such an event! Of course, it would need to be transparent and not inhibit our movement. I wonder if we could use gases for that purpose.

  9. "Caught on Video" by GhaleonStrife · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Caught on Video" makes it sound like something dirty was happening. "Hot meteorite on Moon action! All caught on video!"