[meteorite-list] Observed Lunar Impact 50th Anniv Stuart's Crater

From: Kevin Fly Hill <khill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:45 2004
Message-ID: <001f01c3a54d$36ffbb60$6d00a8c0_at_coxinternet.com>

Wasn't there a medieval report from a monk(s) about a lunar impact? Or was
this disproved?

Fly Hill


> Notible Asteroid Impact observed by a modern human
>
> On the morning of November 15, 1953, amateur astronomer Dr. Leon Stuart
> photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of
> vaporized rock rising from the center of the Moon's face. If his theory
> was correct, he would be the first and only human in history to witness
> and document the impact of an asteroid-sized body impacting the Moon.
> Almost a half-century passed, and what had become known in astronomy
Received on Fri 07 Nov 2003 11:35:53 AM PST


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