{"id":10165,"date":"2015-03-17T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10165"},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:50:30","slug":"lunar-flash-and-plume-seen-by-amateur-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10165","title":{"rendered":"Lunar flash and plume seen by amateur astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selenology Today\u00a0– 2015 (pdf)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lunar Networks blog<\/a>\u00a0report on a flash seen on the Moon by three members – Marco Iten,\u00a0Raffaello Lena,\u00a0Stefano Sposetti – of the Geological Lunar Research Group,<\/a>\u00a0an\u00a0Italian group of\u00a0advanced amateur observers. The flash was\u00a0apparently produced by\u00a0a meteoroid impact:\u00a0Mare Nubium impact with plume captured and analyzed – Lunar Networks<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

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\"2015_02_26_213522_Iten_black\"<\/a>See the flash and plume in top right,<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/b>: We report the detection of an interesting luminous event most probably generated by a meteoroidal impact on the lunar surface occurred at 21h 35m 22.871s \u00b1 0.010s UT, the 26 February 2015. The position of the flash was along the terminator at selenographic coordinates 7.9\u00b0 \u00b1 0.6\u00b0 W\u037e 26.1\u00b0 \u00b1 1.6\u00b0 S. The brightness of the flash 0.16 s after the initial detection was +8.0 magV. After the main lightdrop a successive residual diffuse light lasted for several seconds.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Under the assumption of a meteoroidal impact we argue that this post luminous event and its ever growing dimensions was likely caused by the sunlight reflection on ejected materials released by the impact. Thus, future high resolution orbital data, e.g., from LRO spacecraft (NAC images) could allow the detection of this crater. Because this event was captured only by one observer, we checked for satellite glints and evaluated the likelihood of a meteor hitting head on our atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Continue…<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

\"2015_02_26_213522_Iten_4x\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This map shows the location of the flash at Mare Nubium:<\/p>\n

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Selenology Today\u00a0– 2015 (pdf)\u00a0and\u00a0Lunar Networks blog\u00a0report on a flash seen on the Moon by three members – Marco Iten,\u00a0Raffaello Lena,\u00a0Stefano Sposetti – of the Geological Lunar Research Group,\u00a0an\u00a0Italian group of\u00a0advanced amateur observers. The flash was\u00a0apparently produced by\u00a0a meteoroid impact:\u00a0Mare Nubium impact with plume captured and analyzed – Lunar Networks\u00a0–   See the flash and plume … Continue reading Lunar flash and plume seen by amateur astronomers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2DX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17610,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17610","url_meta":{"origin":10165,"position":0},"title":"Space Science: Planetary rover update, Martian slope streaks, Lunar eclipse flash","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Some space science items of interest: ** Planetary rover update: January 22, 2019 | Behind The Black - Bob Zimmerman reports on the status and plans for the Mars rovers and the Chinese Yutu-2 rover on the Moon. 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