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Lunar impacts - was: Re: (meteorobs) Excerpts From "CCNet Digest 15 June 1999"

Dave and all lunar impact afficionados,

another source for possible lunar impact observations: There is a NASA
report NASA TR R-277 from July 1968 called "Chronological Catalog of
Reported Lunar Events", by Middlehurst, Burley, Moore, and Welther, listing
a total of 579 events on the Moon, going back to 1540. They give the
following info in a table:

- Date and Time
- Feature or Location, Duration
- Description
- Observer
- Reference

An example reads like this:

No. 4, 1668 Nov 26, Dark side, Bright starlike point, Serveral New
Englanders, Josselyn 1675, Mather 1614, Lowes 1927.

Detlef.

At 01:09 PM 6/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>George,
>
>     I'm very surprised that you arn't into conversions considering
>your aptitude for science. One mile is 1.609 km so the area you gave
>would be 32.18 X 40.225= 1294.4 sq. km.
>
>     As for lumar impacts, I once was following a link about them and
>found years of lunar impacts or other events like dust, obscured areas
>on the moon, listed from observations of an observatory in the 1940s.
>I read about two or three years worth of observations then left the
>site, it was on a MUFON site. I didn't bookmark the site, thinking it
>would be easy to find, but I haven't been able to locate the lunar
>impact observations again. If anyone knows or finds this or other
>lunar impact listings how about an address? it would make interesting
>reading for those of us on meteorobs so we can compare the dates to
>known showers.
>
>     I can't report what I saw here a couple of months ago, it's not
>allowed, but it was round and didn't have any lights. Very unremark-
>able.
>
>                             Dave English
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