A NASA telescope has captured the impact of a meteorite with the moon. The rock, about 40 pounds, has created an intense beam of light, that it considered the strongest explosion recorded in lunar surface.
The meteorite was moving at about 90,000 miles per hour when it crashed into the surface of the moon. Having analyzed the recordings, scientists have concluded that the rock was about 30 inches in diameter and weighed about 40 pounds, causing an explosion equivalent to five tons of dynamite.
“exploded in a course nearly 10 times brighter than anything we have seen before,” said Bill Cooke, cabinet studies of meteorites NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
explosion, the strongest of about 300 registered in the last eight years by NASA, was so strong eto bright it could be seen from Earth with the naked eye.
impact was registered on 17 March, but it’s now been revealed by NASA. A NASA satellite to orbit around the moon looking now the newly formed crater, which scientists believe to be about 20 meters.
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