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Re: (meteorobs) Do leonids hitting the moon make observable craters?
In a message dated 12/2/01 10:29:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
phillips@spacesciences.com writes:
<< The answer to this question may be found in the Science@NASA article
"Explosions on the Moon"
http://science.nasadot gov/headlines/y2001/ast30nov_1.htm
According to computer simulations a 10 kg Leonid meteoroid striking the
Moon will produce a crater about 4.5 meters wide. Such a crater is too
small to resolve even by the Hubble telescope. But the explosion that
produces the crater may, under the right conditions, be detected from
Earth, as astronomers have recently done.
--Tony
At 10:06 PM 12/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/2/01 5:35:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>scattol@videotrondot ca writes:
>
><< Ok, so how big a crater the objects that create these flashes
> make? >>
>
>
>I thought I read either on the Lunar Impact site or the listserv that a
>Leonid particle hitting the moon vaporizes a few meters of lunar surface.
Way
>too small to see from earth.
>
>KK
>~~~~~~~~~~~ >>
Thanks Tony, I knew I read it somewhere...
KK
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