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100 Explosions on the MoonI found this article on Breaking News from ATS, so I copied and pasted it here.
How does a rock impacting the surface of the Moon cause bright flashes and explosions? Especially given that the Moon allegedly has negligable atmosphere to cause friction on the rock?
"May 21, 2008: Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under "L" … for lunatic.
Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times.
"They're explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the Moon," explains Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). "A typical blast is about as powerful as a few hundred pounds of TNT and can be photographed easily using a backyard telescope."
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