NASA shows huge blow up on Moon seeable from Earth

NASA records giant explosion on Moon visible from Earth

"On March 17, 2013, an article about the size of a tiny boulder hit the lunar surface inMare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's meteor Environment Office.

"It detonated in a flash nearly 10 times as vivid as anything we've ever seen before," said rahul.

somebody  looking at the Moon at the movement of impact could have seen the   blowup - no telescope was need. For about one second, the affect site was burning like a 4th magnitude star, NASA  said.

Ron Suggs, an psychoanalyst at the Marshall Space Flight Center, was the first to detect the affect in a digital video recorded by one of the supervising program's 14-inch telescopes, said NASA.

"It jumped right out at me, it was so vivid," he said. The 40 kg meteor measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide hit the Moon moving 90123 kph. The resulting explosion packed as much punch as 5 tonnes of TNT. Cooke believes the lunar affect pact might have been part of a much larger event.

"On the night of March 17, NASA and University of Western Ontario all-sky cameras picked up an unusual number of deep-penetrating meteors right here on Earth," he said.

"These fireballs were moving along nearly identical orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt," said Cooke.

This means Earth and the Moon were pelted by meteor s at about the same time, researchers said.

"My working hypothesis is that the two events are related, and that this constitutes a short duration cluster of material encountered by the Earth-Moon system," said Cooke.

One of the goals of the lunar supervising programme is to identify new streams of space debris that pose a potential threat to the Earth-Moon system. The March 17th event seems to be a good candidate.

Controllers of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been notified of the strike. The crater could be as wide as 20 meters, which would make it an easy target for LRO the next time the spacecraft passes over the affect site.