Tag: impact
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Skywatchers spot one, maybe two meteor impacts on moon during lunar eclipse
It’s pretty clear by now that a space rock ranging somewhere in size between an acorn and a football hit the darkened moon during Sunday night’s total lunar eclipse. But were there two? Confirmations of the first impact, and reports about the second, have been circulating through the scientific community and the Twitterverse over the…
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What to do if an asteroid comes our way
A series of video frames shows the Chelyabinsk meteor passing through the skies above the Siberian city of Kamensk-Uralskiy on Feb. 15, 2013. (Aleksandr Ivanov / Popova et al. / Science / AAAS) If an asteroid strikes, don’t head for the hills, or the windows: Head for the basement. A study aimed at sorting out…