\nNASA – A Meteoroid Hits the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n NASA astronomers watched it form: “On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT,” says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. “The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope.”<\/p>\n Right: A meteoroid hits the Moon. <\/em> Lunar impacts have been seen before–“stuff hits the Moon all the time,” notes Cooke–but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress.<\/p>\n [Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Image courtesy NASA.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0606\/flash.jpg\")
<\/a>June 13, 2006: There’s a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.<\/p>\n
\n[Click here or on the image to see the video<\/a>]<\/p>\n
![Click here or on the image to see the video<\/a>]<\/p>\nLunar impacts have been seen before–“stuff hits the Moon all the time,” notes Cooke–but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress.<\/p>\n[Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Image courtesy NASA.<\/p>\nHat tip to Dr. Tony Phillips of SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not having an atmosphere to ward off small meteoroids, the Moon’s surface is under constant bombardment by space rocks. NASA scientists are now collecting data about...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-science","category-space-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/images\/lunarsporadic\/movie760.gif\"){kind=link}