Flashes on the moon

phys.org ^ | May 31, 2019 | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

[SunkenCiv]

Hence, the geologist was sent. :^) Schmidt found that every surface was pocked by micrometeor impacts, that impact was and is the dominant force at work in the formation of lunar surface features. The rest of the "lunar impact" keyword:

• Mysterious flashes of light observed on the moon's surface [2019]
• AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS SPOT METEORITE IMPACT DURING LUNAR ECLIPSE [2019]
• Meteoroid Collides with Moon During Total Lunar Eclipse [2019]
• The Moon WASN'T formed with one giant impact but had a bombardment birth after 20 moonlets hit... [2018]
• Vast asteroid created 'Man in Moon's eye' crater [2016]
• Ancient lunar polar ice reveals tilting of Moon's axis [2016]
• Crater Hunters Find New Clues to Ancient Impact Storm [2014]
• Bright Explosion on the Moon [2013]
• Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings [2012]
• One of the newest craters on the Moon [2010]
• LUNAR IMPACT PLUME [LCROSS team: Moon collision a "smashing success" after all] [2009]
• Yost Says You're Not Frightened Enough [2009]
• The Earth-Moon system during the Late Heavy Bombardment period [2009]
• Ancient impact may have bowled the Moon over [2007]
• Asteroid Breakup May Have Doomed Dinosaurs [2007]
• 'Lunar Ark' Proposed In Case Of Deadly Impact On Earth [2007]
• Landscapes from the ancient and eroded lunar far side [2006]
• Comet or Meteorite Impact Events in 1178AD? [2005]
• Giordano Bruno, the June 1975 Meteoroid Storm, Encke, and Other Taurid Complex Objects [2004]
• A Celestial Collision [2004]
• Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages [2004]
• NASA Solves Moon Mystery (+Geology Picture of the Week, February 16-22, 2003) [2003]
• Moon's Youngest Crater Discovered [2002]
• The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined? [2002]
• Cataclysm 3.9 Billion Years Ago Was Caused By Asteroids, Not Comets [2002]

[75thOVI]

If there was an astronaut named “Jack Smith” on Apollo 17, this may have some significance. Perhaps this is Harrison Schmitt’s distant cousin.