Rare Footage of Lunar Impact Captures Meteorite Strike on the Moon
TL;DR
An Irish astronomer captured a rare video of a meteorite striking the moon during the Geminid meteor shower using the Armagh Robotic Telescope, highlighting the moon's ongoing bombardment by space debris and the importance of studying such impacts for planetary defense.
- See the flash of a meteorite striking the moon in new video Mashable
- Something Just Crashed Into The Moon – And Astronomers Captured The Whole Event IFLScience
- Rare footage of lunar impact flash captured in Armagh BBC
- Video: Lunar impact flash detected on the moon by Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Phys.org
- Mysterious explosion on the Moon? Something just crashed on the Moon, and the hit was visible on Earth; Photo inside Times of India
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