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There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old. 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—that's about the same as 4 ton...

This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows Mare Humorum on the Moon. AMIE obtained the top frame on 1 January 2006, from a distance of 1087 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 98 metres per pixel...

This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the area close to the Sulpicius Gallus crater on the Moon. AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006, from a distance of 1200 kilometres from the surface, with a ground r...

This animated sequence, composed of three images taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows a portion of Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. AMIE obtained the images on 18 March 2006 from distances between 1257 and 1213 kilometres from the surface...

University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago. Ancient main belt asteroids identical in size to present-day asteroids in the Ma...

NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the Moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) (42.1W, 36.5N) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground travelling 27 km/s. The explosion was captur...

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Lunar impact New Lunar Crater (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	1545	Jun 14 00:00 2006 by Blobrana
There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old. 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—that's about the same as 4 ton...
Lunar impact Mare Humorum (Preview)	Solar System	0	1616	Jul 7 23:24 2006 by Blobrana
This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows Mare Humorum on the Moon. AMIE obtained the top frame on 1 January 2006, from a distance of 1087 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 98 metres per pixel...
Lunar impact Crater Sulpicius Gallus (Preview)	Solar System	0	1499	Jul 12 22:10 2006 by Blobrana
This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the area close to the Sulpicius Gallus crater on the Moon. AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006, from a distance of 1200 kilometres from the surface, with a ground r...
Lunar impact Mare Serenitatis (Preview)	Solar System	1	1802	Nov 2 18:14 2012 by Blobrana
This animated sequence, composed of three images taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows a portion of Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. AMIE obtained the images on 18 March 2006 from distances between 1257 and 1213 kilometres from the surface...
Moon Lunar impact Late Heavy Bombardment ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Astronomy News	30	14492	Apr 3 05:39 2013 by Blobrana
University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago. Ancient main belt asteroids identical in size to present-day asteroids in the Ma...
Lunar impact Lunar impact ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	11	5098	Apr 28 09:55 2014 by Blobrana
NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the Moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) (42.1W, 36.5N) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground travelling 27 km/s. The explosion was captur...