Tech Explorist: Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with a bonus surprise- a meteorite impact.
The alleged “super wolf blood moon” was anxiously viewed by a large number of people around the globe, for the most part through live spilling video. Amid the eclipse, a few people saw a tiny flash, a concise yellow-white spot, springing up on the lunar surface amid the online broadcasts. A Reddit user raises the possibility that it was a meteorite impact. Other also shared eclipse footage for evidence of the event. A flash is visible in at least three different videos.
The effect was authoritatively affirmed on Monday by José María Madiedo, an astronomer at the University of Huelva in Spain. Madiedo and his partners have been checking lunar eclipses for years with the MIDAS (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System) network of telescopes, explicitly searching for impacts.