FW: Lunar Leonid Strikes

From: Andrew Johnson

Date: 2006-12-01 23:14:57

Those pesky Leonids could hamper future moon missions! Why are they now a problem for moon missions? Oops – sorry – of COURSE the Apollo missions were successful! NASA Science News for December 1, 2006 Meteoroids are hitting the Moon more often than anyone expected. That’s the tentative conclusion of astronomers who recently saw two Leonids hit the Moon and explode. The full story includes a movie of one of the Leonid impacts. FULL STORY at science.nasa.gov/hea… Check out our RSS feed at science.nasa.gov/rss…!  

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