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Daisy Dobrijevic

Astronomer captures 2 meteors slamming into the moon (video)

Two panel image showing a bright flash on the moon with a circle around it highlighting the location.

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum. The flashes, visible from Earth for just a split second, were caused by space rocks striking the lunar surface at high speed, producing brief but brilliant explosions of light.

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