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. // Edge detection | |||
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| D: Impact at 3:49:40 UT.
Also recorded by David Palmer in Greenbelt, MD.
Average of 10 fields. // Edge detection | |||
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| E: Impact at 4:08:04 UT.
Also recorded by David Palmer in Greenbelt, MD.
Average of 10 fields. // Edge detection | |||
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| A: Impact at 4:46:15 UT.
Also seen by Brian Cudnik in Houston, Texas.
Average of 10 fields. // Edge detection | |||
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| B: Impact at 5:14:13 UT.
Also recorded by Pedro Valdes Sada, near Monterrey, Mexico.
Average of 10 fields. // Edge detection | |||
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| C: Impact at 5:15:20 UT.
Also recorded by Pedro Valdes Sada, near Monterrey, Mexico.
Average of 10 fields. // Edge detection | |||
Note: New images of A, B, and C were added on Dec 10, 1999.
Moon map showing preliminary impact positions - Dec. 9:
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Moon map with grid used with edge-detection figures to determine the impact locations - Dec. 8
First Announcement of Confirmed Lunar Impact - Nov. 19
First Accounts of other confirmaions - Nov. 24
International Astronomical Union Circular 7320 - Nov. 26
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. 10
Story in the
Baltimore Sun, 1999 Dec 01
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. 10
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