Comet Crashed Into Moon
It'll also help to be looking at a space away from the night's waxing gibbous moon. Because the moon is so close to full, it has the potential to wash out many of the meteors. Most meteor showers tend to hit their apex after midnight, but the Draconids, which should produce around 5-10 meteors per hour, are one of the rare ones where the best time to see it is earlier in the evening.Additionally, for either shower this week, you're going to want to be sure you've got clear skies in the forecast.
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Crappy weather is going to ruin your night. Not just because the weather will be, well, crappy, but because you won't be able to see the meteors. In Accuweather's most recent forecast for Wednesday night, it looks like visibility in the Upper Midwest is going to fall under the category of garbage.
The West Coast, Southwest, Southeast, and parts of the eastern seaboard will have a great night for sky-gazing. The Northeast, also garbage. Check your local forecast, but Accuweather's map is embedded below. The moon will still wash out many of the meteors, but, as the, the Southern Taurids tend to produce bright fireballs that can compete with the moon's vibrant light. Fireballs are exactly what they sound like.
They're bright and far more noticeable than the average meteor. They make for a better show.The Southern Taurids are expected to produce roughly the same number of meteors per hour as the Draconids. However, if you can't get out for either shower, fret not.
The Orionids are coming later in the month and will put on a better show than either of these displays. Rise of mythos down. You'll still have plenty to brag about to your coworkers who don't leave the house after dark.
A meteorite smashed into the moon's surface at 38,000 miles per hour (61,000 kilometers per hour) in January, a new report reveals.Observers, when the object collided with the moon and carved out a crater about 10 to 15 meters (33 to 50 feet) in diameter. It was traveling fast enough to have been able to cross the United States in just a few minutes, but, luckily for Earth, it slammed into the moon instead.Astronomers measured a 0.28-second flash from the impact, the first ever filmed during a lunar eclipse. When the moon passes into the Earth's shadow during its normal orbit around our planet. The moon turns a reddish or orange color, because only sunlight around the edges of Earth's shadow can reach the moon's surface.Related. 'Something inside of me told me that this time would be the time,' Jose Maria Madiedo, an astrophysicist at the University of Huelva in Spain and lead author on the new study,.
Madiedo and fellow astrophysicist Jose Ortiz, of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, caught the flash on video using the (MIDAS). MIDAS is a network of eight telescopes in southern Spain that monitors the moon's surface.MIDAS monitored the flash in different wavelengths, revealing more information about the space rock that hit the moon. Scientists estimated the rock was about 45 kg (100 lbs.) in mass and roughly 30 to 60 centimeters (1 foot to 2 feet) across.After the impactor crashed into the surface, the debris it generated had an estimated peak temperature that was about as hot as the surface of the sun — about 9,750 degrees Fahrenheit (5,400 degrees Celsius).Related:A meteorite hit the moon during a total lunar eclipse in January 2019, seen here as a bright flash. (Image credit: J. Madiedo/MIDAS)Researchers said in the statement that the moon is hit by small rocks more often than Earth because it has only a tenuous atmosphere, while Earth's is thick enough for many space rocks to burn up before they can reach the surface.The scientists added that observing the flash was especially valuable because they cannot duplicate it on our own planet.' It would be impossible to reproduce these high-speed collisions in a lab on Earth. Observing flashes is a great way to test our ideas on exactly what happens when a meteorite collides with the moon,' Madiedo said.The scientists added that knowing the rate of lunar collisions will be especially important in the protection of the safety of astronauts, who may venture.The new research was in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter.
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