[meteorite-list] contemporary lunar impacts

From: Mark Bowling <minador_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1319781864.60579.YahooMailNeo_at_web161404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Oops, sent in richtext...
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From: Mark Bowling <minador at yahoo.com>
To: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>; "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:58 PM
Subject: contemporary lunar impacts


Bernd,
That is a very interesting reference.? William Herschel is one of my favorite historical figures & I remember reading about his observations of lunar volcanoes in a book titled?"little known science oddities"?book?(or something like that - I still have that book somewhere in my collection).
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It always fascinated me and when I studied geology at university, I always remembered his claim whenever we studied volcanoes or impacts.? I didn't take my geology studies quite as far as I should have and I?never took the time to research whether large impacts could produce enough melted rock to leave a glowing scar or not.? I don't know if?I ever posed that question to any of my professors, but I always got the impression that, since the moon is "volcanically dead", it wasn't very likely.? But I'd like to think it can, and that such a great observer was blessed to see such a unique event.
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I would like to hear more from others who know about this topic.
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I recently had a brief look at a site which discussed how amateurs (?) have been detecting meteor impacts on the moon.? It could have been the Cloudbait Observatory, Thomas Ashcraft's site?or a site in Canada??? Pretty fascinating stuff!? I look forward to getting my telescope back up and running soon:)
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Thanks for bringing this up!
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Clear skies,
Mark B.
Vail, AZ


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From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 2:03 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] The Dark Side.. Oops!

Phil wrote:

"Do people still say 'dark side of the moon'
when referring to the far side of the moon?



Lunar Volcanoes - William Herschel observed
lunar lights (Astronomy Now, April 1999, p. 58):

"April 19, 1787. I perceive three volcanoes in different places of
the? d a r k? s i d e? of the new moon."

Best wishes,

Bernd
Received on Fri 28 Oct 2011 02:04:24 AM PDT