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A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here's what we know.
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A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here's what we know.
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January 23, 2019, 08:37:39 am »
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Flashes of light from an impact are faint and short lived, making them easy to confuse with an errant pixel. But image after image showed the same thing: At 4:41 UT, when totality was just beginning, a tiny speck of light glinted south of the crater Byrgius, a nearly 55-mile-wide pockmark in the western part of the moon.
“They all seem to see the same bright pixel,†Mazrouei says. This confluence points strongly toward the flash of light actually being an impact.
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