To: TaraP
"Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon’s orbit occur every few weeks,” said Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in a statement." If this is as common as he claims, then when was the last time we had a significant impact of an asteroid on the moon?
It would seem as if 71 foot asteroids traveling between the earth and moon would occasionally hit one or the other.
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Asteroids below a certain size would break up in the atmosphere.
27 posted on
04/07/2010 10:33:48 AM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
If this is as common as he claims, then when was the last time we had a significant impact of an asteroid on the moon? AFAIK, 1178, but some dispute that one.
39 posted on
04/07/2010 10:01:47 PM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
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