November 18th (UT) Lunar Impacts

Recorded by David Dunham at Mount Airy, MD

Sequences of video fields showing 6 meteor impacts on the Moon.
Click for full field, which shows the arc of the faintly earthlit dark side of the moon.

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F: Impact at 3:05:44 UT. Also recorded by David Palmer in Greenbelt, MD.
Average of 10 fields.




D: Impact at 3:49:40 UT. Also recorded by David Palmer in Greenbelt, MD.
Average of 10 fields.




E: Impact at 4:08:04 UT. Also recorded by David Palmer in Greenbelt, MD.
Average of 10 fields.




A: Impact at 4:46:15 UT. Also seen by Brian Cudnik in Houston, Texas.


B: Impact at 5:14:13 UT. Also recorded by Pedro Valdes Sada, near Monterrey, Mexico.


C: Impact at 5:15:20 UT. Also recorded by Pedro Valdes Sada, near Monterrey, Mexico.
Note: Impacts A, B, and C were digitized with a different setup so they cannot be directly compared in brightness to the first 3. Also the times shown on the full fields of the last sequences are relative and inaccurate.

Press Release - Dec. 8

Technical Summary - Dec. 8

Moon map showing preliminary impact positions - Dec. 3: Small / Large

First Announcement of Confirmed Lunar Impact - Nov. 19

First Accounts of other confirmaions - Nov. 24

Telescopic videos from Nov. 16-18 wanted for meteor studies - Dec. 1

Let Us know if you observed the moon's dark side Nov. 17-18 - Dec. 1

Let's try to record Geminids - Dec. 1

Story in the Baltimore Sun, 1999 Dec 01

Image showing Psi 1 Aqr.

A probable lunar meteor impact was photographed on Nov. 15, 1953, by Dr. Stuart.

A NASA web page on Leonids on the Moon.

David Dunham, IOTA, 1999 Dec. 8
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