What Is The Mysterious Object That Crashed Into The Moon?
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On February 23 of this year, an amateur astronomer recorded what appears to be a meteor impact on the moon's surface, which is estimated to have released energy equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT!
But... what exactly hit the moon, and why are scientists so concerned about it?
Let's find out!
The impact
The impact on February 23 was captured by an amateur astronomer called Daichi Fujii, at the Hiratsuka City Museum, in Japan curator.
The moment of impact was so bright that if anyone else had been photographing the Moon at that moment, they would have caught it on camera as well.
Although this impact is not the only one captured on the Moon, it is one of the brightest, indicating that the object that crashed into our satellite was large.
This is a massive addition to research on meteorite impacts on the Moon since something big enough to produce that flash would have left a massive crater on the Moon's surface.
This worries NASA scientists a lot since if these types of impacts are frequent; it could put future missions to the Moon at risk, especially the Artemis 2 project, which aims to bring the next astronauts to the lunar surface.
The obvious question here is, whether there is any possibility that some astronauts will die from the impact of a micrometeorite like the one captured in the image of February 23?
When it comes to Earth, we know that, on average, about 33 tons of micrometeoroids arrive on our planet every day, and most of them burn up in the upper atmosphere.
But there is no atmosphere on the Moon, so meteorites reach the surface more eas
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00:00 Intro
00:45 the impact
2:03 Micrometeorites on the moon
5:43 The future of manned lunar missions is at risk
7:05 Defense methods
9:30 are we safe?
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