Comments on: Moonwhacked

By: R.Dhatt

R.Dhatt — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:20:25 +0000

NASA is reporting a new crater formed on May 2 2006 -- they have animated frames showing the event.

By: Railharry

Railharry — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:33:36 +0000

Just back from an Alaska Cruise. Didn’t see any good astronomical stuff, but did eat lunch with a guy using his satellite cell phone well away from any other cell phone source. Perhaps Dreyfuss had one of them.

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:52:40 +0000

Other evidence of witnessed moon impacts:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/leonids_crash_000621.html

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:49:34 +0000

Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Moon Impact Confirmed, 50 Years Later
Back in 1953, amateur astronomer Leon Stuart photographed what he claimed was an asteroid-sized rock smashing into the moon. Now NASA says the crater has been found. Such a collision only happens about once every 50 years, they estimate, meaning that Stuart is probably the only person in history to witness and document the creation of a moon crater.

By: EffJot

EffJot — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:30:17 +0000

Doesn’t really pertain to moon impacts, but today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is a quite nice collection of full moon pictures over one year. Have a look at the animation, this shows the effects very well.

http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=308256

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:42:31 +0000

About the Moon on the horizon for ZorkFox:
A full moon can be on the horizon (obviously, because it must rise), and the moon can be on the horizon at midnight (depending on where it is in its orbit relative to us), but Tom K’s point was that the moon can’t be BOTH full AND on the horizon at midnight.
When the moon is full, the Earth is on a line, roughly, from the sun to the moon. That means that when the moon is full, and the point on the Earth on which we are standing is opposite the sun (midnight), then the moon must be high in the sky.
The exception is the one Stuart points out where the moon could be near the southern horizon, although I can’t imagine a passenger on a cruise liner out for a stroll on the deck in the high arctic at midnight in, say, late December. Was Richard wearing a parka? Did his nose look waxy white?

By: ZorkFox

ZorkFox — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:13:30 +0000

P.S. I get the same error messages as appeared above in Beskeptigal’s comment. My post seems to have made it onto the board all right, but the “success” page told me all that garbage. Something wrong with the software, or something we’re doing wrong?