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Explosions On The Moon

NASA astronomers have noticed flashes of light on the moon during the last two years.

These bursts have occurred hundreds of times during that span. Meteoroids hitting the moon cause them. One blast is equivalent to hundreds of pounds of TNT, and the explosions can be photographed from a typical backyard telescope.

Click here to see video of an impact, which occurred in January.

Read 9 comments about “Explosions On The Moon”

1. 1 - flag_football says:
   May 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

   neat!

2. 2 - Jello73 says:
   May 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm

   Cool!, and scary.

3. 3 - AJM says:
   May 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   Very cool!

4. 4 - Moon Man says:
   May 25th, 2008 at 6:52 am

   That’s so scary if it will ever hit Earth. I’m pretty interested in Space stuff and this is very interesting. I have never heard about this in past years.

5. 5 - Swimgod says:
   May 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   This is s neat even maybe the moon might come to earth and BLOW it up.

6. 6 - Minn-man says:
   May 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

   Thats amazing. It shows that there is more out there!

7. 7 - HottHunk says:
   May 27th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   This a very interesting topic because if those meteroids can hit the moon then cant they travel to the earth to? Well any way i guess what happens happens. Its not like we can stop it we dont have any intergallactic space rockets that can shoot them down.

8. 8 - oh baby says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   umm…the moon isnt gonna move because of a meteroreoroereoroeor

9. 9 - unstopable GuRl says:
   July 26th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

   oh! scary what can i do? standby hahhaha:D

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