Bright Explosion on the Moon

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 20:40 in Astronomy & Space

NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program. It was caused by a small boulder-sized meteoroid hitting the Moon with as much energy as 5 tons of TNT.

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