Nasa has revealed that a meteorite impact on the Moon on 17 March caused a large enough explosion that it may have been visible to those looking up at the time.
The impact is the brightest that's been seen in the eight years that Nasa has been monitoring lunar collisions. In that time, more than 300 rocks have smashed into the Moon's surface, but the 17 March impact was many orders of magnitude brighter than any previously seen.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/18/moon-explosion
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