Vredefort (South Africa)

Type: City

Name: Vredefort (South Africa)

Country: South Africa

Latitude: -27.01

Longitude: 27.379999

population: 10,649

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

NASA

The steady hail of meteors pummeling the Moon

A NASA telescope monitoring the Moon recently spotted a bright flash the space agency says was caused by a boulder-sized meteor slamming into the lunar surface. Meteors smash into the Moon fairly frequently, but this collision, which occurred on March ... [Published The Week Magazine - May 20 2013]

Entities: NASA, Bill Cooke, Vredefort (South Africa), Russia, Asteroid Belt

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

Earth in the bullseye?

Asteroids and meteors have been much in the news recently, with an exploding meteor injuring hundreds in Russia and an asteroid making a close fly-by of the Earth, both on Friday.Earlier in the week, researchers announced they had improved the accuracy ... [Published Space Daily - Feb 19 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,..., Solar System, Erosion

Quotes

...Meteors smash into the Moon fairly frequently, but this collision, which occurred on March 17, was the biggest NASA has ever observed. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before" said Bill Cooke, from NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. The blast was so bright it was visible to the naked eye...

The steady hail of meteors pummeling the Moon [Published The Week Magazine - May 20 2013]