The moon took a hard hit yesterday from a 400kg as the large object collided with it. The meteor moving at 61,000 km/h impacted the moon with enough force to create a 40 meter wide crater. The impact created a flash that was seen from earth. The impact was equivalent to 15 tons of TNT and was first seen by a Spanish Telescope. "This impact … shows that the rate of impacts on our planet for rocks of this size, around one metre in diameter, is about 10 times greater than we thought."
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/24/meteorite-moon-largest-lunar-impact-recorded
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