Comments on: Lunar meteor impact on video

By: GIF loop of lunar impact « David Kirkpatrick

GIF loop of lunar impact « David Kirkpatrick — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:44:09 +0000

[…] George Varros, GIF animation, lunar impact, meteor — davidkirkpatrick @ 3:44 am This is one cool post from Bad Astronomy. A recorded, and confirmed, meteor impact on the […]

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:17:13 +0000

Ahhh, grams! However, wouldn’t it be more likely that larger meteorites would impact the moon because of the lack of atmosphere? Also didn’t the Apollo crews leave behind seismic instruments that detected impacts on the Lunar surface?

By: tony873004

tony873004 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:34:19 +0000

“Tony873004–as far as I know, most meteors are in elliptical or highly elliptical orbits, and so are going to cross the earth’s orbit at a nearly perpendicular angle. ”

That makes sense, since we’re probably talking about particles shed from comets.

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:05:51 +0000

Will any of the vechicles currently orbiting the moon be able to image the impact site?

- Jack

By: Jack Hagerty

Jack Hagerty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:58:59 +0000

chris says: “ASTRONOMER: come on man, Phil has done more to put cool astro into the heads of kids then you’ve ever done. humans make errors, phil is just as likely as you to forget to carry the 1, suck it up and don’t read badastronomy if you disagree.”

Chris (and others who responded), forget it. This is a troll. It’s word-for-word identical to the post a few weeks ago. There probably wasn’t an earlier message deleted. That’s a technique to get you to start thinking about the troll. Notice there is not a single specific about what the message (or this topic) was about?

- Jack

By: Ian Menzies

Ian Menzies — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:59 +0000

Can someone please tell me how to get quotes like in Torbjörn Larsson’s post?

I believe (and if this works I will be right) that you want to use

to make them.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:25:15 +0000

At the risk of feeding a troll…

Astronomer: Yes, Phil can and does make mistakes. However the difference between him and the woowoo’s is that he will correct his mistakes and point out the corrections to show where he went wrong. The woowoo crowd 1) change what is displayed on their EOTW websites without admitting they were wrong or 2) claim that their EOTW predictions were misinterpreted or 3) move on to the next EOTW woowoo scenario and hope that no-one notices. Phil also knows the difference between “your” and “you’re” (and “yaw” and “yore” as well) which is something that you, with your cut-&-paste posting method, seem unable to do. Your best bet would be to get a little education because you’re getting very tedious.