“I have not heard of anyone seeing an impact like this during a lunar eclipse before,” said Sara Russell, a professor of planetary sciences at the Natural History Museum in London. This may be the first time that a collision, during a total lunar eclipse, was captured on video. “A meteoroid about this size hits the moon about once a week or so,” said Cowart. The location of the impact may be somewhere in the lunar highlands, south of Byrgius crater, according to Justin Cowart, a graduate student in geosciences at Stony Brook University in New York who first saw the flash of light. When totality was just beginning at 4:41 UT, the tiny speck of light blinked south of a nearly 55-mile-wide crater in the western part of the moon. Originally thinking it was electronic noise from the camera, astronomers and citizen scientists shared the visual phenomenon with each other to identify it. It was "likely caused by the crash of a tiny, fast-moving meteoroid left behind by a comet." Livestreams detected a flash of light while viewing the eclipse. It took place in the constellation of Cancer, just west of the Beehive Cluster. The penumbral phases of the eclipse changes the appearance of the Moon only slightly and is generally not noticeable. Earth's penumbra no longer makes contact with the Moon. P4 (Sixth contact): End of the penumbral eclipse.U4 (Fifth contact): End of the partial eclipse.The Moon's outer limb exits Earth's umbra. U3 (Fourth contact): End of the total eclipse.The Moon is at its closest to the center of Earth's umbra. Greatest eclipse: The peak stage of the total eclipse.The Moon's surface is entirely within Earth's umbra. U2 (Third contact): Beginning of the total eclipse.Earth's umbra touches the Moon's outer limb. U1 (Second contact): Beginning of the partial eclipse.Earth's penumbra touches the Moon's outer limb. P1 (First contact): Beginning of the penumbral eclipse.The timing of total lunar eclipses are determined by its contacts: It is the only documented case of a lunar impact during a total lunar eclipse. The impact was observed during totality, at 4:41 UTC, on left side of the moon. The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California captured video showing a meteor between the size of an acorn and tennis ball impacting the moon during the eclipse.
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This was a Super Full Moon because occurred less than a day before perigee and the Moon was less than exactly 360,000 km (223,694 mi). This was the last total lunar eclipse until May 2021. Īs this supermoon was also a wolf moon (the first full moon in a calendar year), it was referred to as a " super blood wolf moon" blood refers to the typical red color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. The Moon was near its perigee on 21 January and as such can be described as a " supermoon". For observers in Europe and Africa, the eclipse occurred during the morning of 21 January. For observers in the Americas, the eclipse took place between the evening of Sunday, 20 January and the early morning hours of Monday, 21 January. A total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 January 2019 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
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