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Name: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Massive Moon explosion captured on NA...

NASA cameras have captured video of the largest explosion it has ever seen on the moon, when a meteorite crashed into the lunar surface in a bright burst of light visible to the naked eye.âOn March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder ... [Published Siasat Daily - May 21 2013]

Entities: NASA, Detonation, Meteorite, Marshall Space Flight Centre

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Slooh To Broadcast Massive Lunar Asteroid...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe OnlineAn organization aimed at bringing celestial event programming to everyone with a computer, iPhone or iPad is planning to broadcast the fiery explosion that took place on the moon just a few months ag ... [Published Red Orbit - May 20 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, Bob Berman, Bill Cooke, NASA, Fireball

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 5 reports

Boom! NASA captures massive moon explosion on video

This NASA artist concept shows what the impact may have looked like.(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) It's a good thing you weren't standing on the Mare Imbrium on the moon on March 17. You might have been ground into space dust. A meteoroid ... [Published CNET News - May 20 2013]

Entities: NASA, Detonation, Mare Imbrium, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Lunar Hook Shot

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a cool close-up picture of the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (or LRO), and this one is too nifty not to share:What you’re looking at is a region about a kilometer (0.6 miles) across not far from an impact ... [Published Slate Magazine - May 19 2013]

Entities: Shadowing, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Topography, Plume

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

NASA records biggest explosion on moon visible from Earth

, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,? said Bill Cooke of NASA?s Meteoroid Environment Office. ?It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we?ve ever seen before,? said Cooke. PTIAnyone ... [Published Firstpost.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Bill Cooke, NASA, Detonation, Mare Imbrium, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

NASA observes powerful meteor strike on moon

The Meteoroid Environment Office of NASA witnessed the most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever recorded in eight years since its inception.On 17 March, a meteor travelling at 90,000 kilometres per hour struck the moon causing an explosion that equalled ... [Published domain-b - May 19 2013]

Entities: NASA, Bill Cooke, Powerful

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Meteor crashes into moon's surface causing flash – video

A Nasa telescope captures the moment a 40kg (88lb) rock crashes into the moon's surface on Friday. The impact caused a flash 10 times brighter than any other Nasa has seen since it began monitoring the lunar surface eight years ago. Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 18 2013]

Entities: NASA, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 7 reports

NASA Detects Explosion On Moon From Meteorite Collision

A boulder slammed into the moon on March 17, causing the biggest explosion on the celestial body NASA scientists have seen so far. The meteorite collided with the lunar surface at an incredible 56,000 mph.In doing so, it created a new crater measuring ... [Published Inquisitr - May 18 2013]

Entities: NASA, Meteorite, Detonation, Bill Cooke

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of events related to lunar exploration

NASA Schmitt, shown here in his official NASA photograph taken in 1971, will visit Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 to participate in a round of activities having to do with lunar exploration. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a ... [Published WUSTL Science & Technology News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Apollo 17, Cosmonaut, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA, Low Orbit

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Review: Moon Hoax

Moon HoaxThrillers typically require the reader to be willing to suspend their disbelief to at least some degree, in order to accept plot circumstances that, on their own, sound implausible at best but are needed to propel the story through its twists ... [Published Space Review - May 13 2013]

Entities: Laser, Suspension, Futron, Peter Novak, Cosmonaut

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Dueling Desolations: Mercury vs. the Moon

Topics: pretty pictures, Mercury, the Moon, MESSENGER, Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterThe gray, cratered surfaces of the planet Mercury and the Earth's moon are in some ways twins. At first glance they can even be hard to tell apart. Both are still, ... [Published Planetary Society - May 13 2013]

Entities: Mercury, NASA, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Researchers Find How Moon with no Water is Watery

A study carried out by a group of researchers at the Brown University has shed light over how the moon, which is full of watery bodies, actually got to have so much of water.People are familiar enough with the Sea of Tranquility on the moon. But, there ... [Published TopNews United States - May 10 2013]

Entities: Planetesimal, Angular Momentum, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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human space flight program, even though a near-term commitment to such a program is still pending. " This finding is consistent with my observations, and one that I trust this Subcommittee will take under advisement given the Committee's long-held trust in the work and value of the NRC. Although the NRC's report was published prior to the President's announcement of the current asteroid retrieval mission, the shortcomings and issues cited in the above excerpt are still relevant in my view."

Statement of Douglas Cooke: Hearing on Next Steps in Human Exploration to Mars and Beyond [Published SpaceRef - 23 hours ago]

The video was recorded by a 14-inch telescope. "It jumped right out at me. It was so bright" says Ron Suggs, analyst at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It landed with an explosive force equivalent to 5 tons of TNT

Boom! NASA captures massive moon explosion on video [Published CNET News - May 20 2013]

...According to NASA, the mighty blast briefly "glowed like a 4th magnitude star ... the explosion packed as much punch as 5 tons of TNT" . For comparison that's twice as much explosive as one would find in a US Air Force nuclear-bunker-busting MOP superbomb

Massive EXPLOSION visible to naked eye SEEN ON MOON [Published The Register - May 20 2013]

"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium" Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement...

Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lunar Surface, NASA Says (VIDEO) [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - May 18 2013]

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Statement of Douglas Cooke: Hearing on Next Ste... [Published SpaceRef - 23 hours ago]
Massive Moon explosion captured on NA... [Published Siasat Daily - May 21 2013]
Massive Moon explosion captured on NASA video [Published ProKerala.com - May 21 2013]
Massive Moon Explosion Captured on NASA Video [Published RIA Novosti - May 20 2013]
Slooh To Broadcast Massive Lunar Asteroid... [Published Red Orbit - May 20 2013]
Boom! NASA captures massive moon explosion on v... [Published CNET News - May 20 2013]
Moon Gets Slammed by Cosmic Bullet [Published Discovery Health - May 20 2013]
Apparently No One Noticed This Humongous Explos... [Published Gizmodo - May 20 2013]
Explosion on Moon ? visible to naked eye [Published KitGuru.net - May 20 2013]
Massive EXPLOSION visible to naked eye SEEN ON ... [Published The Register - May 20 2013]
Lunar Hook Shot [Published Slate Magazine - May 19 2013]
NASA records biggest explosion on moon visible ... [Published Firstpost.com - May 19 2013]
NASA observes powerful meteor strike on moon [Published domain-b - May 19 2013]
NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 18 2013]
Meteor crashes into moon's surface causing flas... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 18 2013]
NASA Detects Explosion On Moon From Meteorite C... [Published Inquisitr - May 18 2013]
Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lu... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 18 2013]
Meteor strike with moon causes massive explosion [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 18 2013]
Moon Hit By Large Meteoroid Impact [Published GlobalSecurity.org - May 18 2013]
Rock slams into moon, sparks giant explosion [Published NBCNews.com - May 17 2013]
NASA Records Biggest Explosion Ever Seen On Moo... [Published ITechPost - May 17 2013]
Astronomers Catch Bright Explosion On The Moon [Published Red Orbit - May 17 2013]
Moon Hit By Largest Meteoroid Impact in 8 Years [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]
Super-Bright Explosion Seen on the Moon [Published Universe Today - May 17 2013]
Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explo... [Published Space.com - May 17 2013]
Bright explosion on the Moon [Published PhysOrg.com - May 17 2013]
Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of ev... [Published WUSTL Science & Technology News - May 16 2013]
When (Part of) Apollo 13 Reached the Moon [Published Discovery Health - May 16 2013]
Review: Moon Hoax [Published Space Review - May 13 2013]
Dueling Desolations: Mercury vs. the Moon [Published Planetary Society - May 13 2013]

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Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of ev... [Published WUSTL Science & Technology News - May 16 2013] NASA Schmitt, shown here in his official NASA photograph taken in 1971, will visit Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 to participate in a round of activities having to do with lunar exploration. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a ...
NASA’s Wallops Island to secure spotlight with ... [Published SlashGear - Apr 13 2013] Orbital Sciences Corp. will be conducting its first test launch of its Antares rocket on April 18th, and if all goes well, the company will be well on its way on delivering on its $1.9 billion contract with NASA . The contract requires Orbital to complete ...
NASA’s Wallops Island to secure spotlight with ... [Published SlashGear - Apr 13 2013] Orbital Sciences Corp. will be conducting its first test launch of its Antares rocket on April 18th, and if all goes well, the company will be well on its way on delivering on its $1.9 billion contract with NASA . The contract requires Orbital to complete ...
NASA to place an asteroid into orbit around the... [Published SlashGear - Apr 07 2013] NASA will likely be funded $105 million for a new mission proposed by the Obama administration. President Obama will likely request the $105 million when he releases his federal budget request for 2014 next week. In the mission, NASA will seek out ...
NASA chooses TESS and NICER projects for 2017 m... [Published SlashGear - Apr 06 2013] NASA has decided on two “low-cost” missions that it plans on launching in 2017. The first project involves the MIT-led Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project, and the second project involves the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer ...

Press Releases

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Public Invited to Free Lecture on Apollo 17 Ann... [Published PR Newswire: Auto & Transportation - Dec 05 2012]