Daichi Fujii cant get enough of the flashy skies.
Ergo: Some of these fireballs may be hitting our rocky satellite.
The Moons pockmarked face is no stranger to impacts from rocky debris in our cosmos.
The Moon’s north polar region.Image: JPL
Nevertheless, the recent footage may show such impacts as they happened.
The Geminids are an annual mid-December meteor shower.
The Geminids originate from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, which the Infrared Astronomical Satellite discovered in October 1983.
Its not entirely clear that the recently captured footage shows Geminids hitting the Moonthough clearly something is.
Youll just have to wait a little while.
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