[meteorite-list] Re: PHOTO OF A LUNAR IMPACT EVENT (was Crackpot in the news...)

[Darren Garrison]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:16:16 -0500, "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com> wrote:

>	I just sent a post under the old topic heading about vaguely
>remembering this photo, and discounting it.  But I just ran into a NASA
>press release about the verification of this photo as an impact event,
>#03-077 of 02-20-03.  See, as soon as you blab on about how there ain't
>no such thing, it pops up out of nowhere!  Or, at least, it pops up out
>of Google... Here's the story and the photo of an impact on the Moon.
>
>NASA PRESS RELEASE 03-077 of 02-20-03
>ABOUT POSSIBLE 1953 PHOTO OF IMPACT ON MOON:
><http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/feb/HP_news_03077.html>
>
>THE SAME PRESS RELEASE BUT WITH THE PHOTO
><http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/ltp1956.htm>
>
>LunaScan is a network of people who run automated telescopes to search
>for TPL's (Transient Lunar Phenomenon).  Here's their home page:
><http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/>

I was thinking that I had read about the Clementine photo having been since debunked.  It took some
digging, but I finally found reference to it.  (Interestingly enough, the key piece came from a post
Google brought up from the archives of this mailing list, originally posted by Ron Baalke in 2003)

http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com/msg10437.html

and here's the story he linked to:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_890_1.asp