(meteorobs) Lunar Leonid Strikes

[David Entwistle]

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Friday, December 1, 2006
Source: Marshall Space Flight Center

Meteoroids are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than anyone
expected. That's the tentative conclusion of Bill Cooke, head of NASA's
Meteoroid Environment Office, after his team observed two Leonids
hitting the Moon on Nov. 17, 2006. "We've now seen 11 and possibly 12
lunar impacts since we started monitoring the Moon one year ago," says
Cooke. "That's about four times more hits than our computer models
predicted..."

See the following link for the full story.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=21397
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David Entwistle