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How rare are these impacts? Are they like once in a lifetime observations, about once a year, or what?
by can16358p 4y ago
How rare are these impacts? Are they like once in a lifetime observations, about once a year, or what?
- NGC404 4y agoNasa has a Program called "Lunar Impact Monitoring". See: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-007-9184-0 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-007-9184-0 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150021386/downloads/20150021386.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150021386/downloads/20... http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2013/05/brightest-impact-recorded-by-nasa-lunar.html http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2013/05/brightest-impact-r... The data collected by the "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter" can be used to estimate the frequency of impacts. https://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/943 https://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/943
- foobarbecue 4y agoThis paper found 222 impacts when comparing repeat LRO images (2009-present): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19829 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19829 I'm leading new a citizen science project called MoonDiff, comparing against older images to look further back in time -- contact me if interested. https://moondiff.org https://moondiff.org https://trek.nasa.gov/moondiff/static/moondiff_intro.webm https://trek.nasa.gov/moondiff/static/moondiff_intro.webm https://github.com/nasa-jpl/moondiff https://github.com/nasa-jpl/moondiff