The moon still runs interference for Earth

[hh5]

thanks for not hitting the earth

NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes

 

Since 2005, a team at NASA has been monitoring meteoroid explosions on the surface of the moon. In March, they announced yesterday, they observed an explosion so bright it would have been visible from Earth without a telescope. "For about one second," NASA said in a statement, "the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star." It was nearly ten times as bright as any other previously recorded impact.

 

Unlike our safely cocooned planet, the moon has no atmosphere to protect it, and meteoroids do not burn up as they approach the surface. Over the past eight years, NASA scientists have observed more than 300 impacts, some of which are mapped below, with the March strike denoted by the red square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Celethiel]

well it's her job, she better keep doing it...

[JamesSavik]

Earth would be as beaten up as the moon if it wasn't there.

 

What doesn't hit our moon is often deflected by the geometry of the gravitational differential between the earth and the moon.