This morning, August 1, 2013 at 02:21:55 UT, a small meteoroid has
impacted the Moon's surface. The kinetic energy transformed by the impact into
thermal energy also caused a short flash of light that was detected
by three telescopes.
We used Calsky© (http://www.calsky.com/) to search for artificial
satellites in the lineof-sight. No satellites within a circle of 3° diameter
were found.
The simultaneity of the bright flash and the same position on the lunar
surface indicates it is an impact.
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Detected lunar impact occurred on August 1 2013 at 02:21:55 UT imaged by Raffaello Lena (Italy), Andrea Manna and Stefano Sposetti (Switzerland) |
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Superimposed frame of the detected flash coordinates 73° E +/- 4° and 27° N +/- 3° |