NASA Scientists revealed this week that the biggest explosion from a meteorite was seen on the moon during eight years of monitoring.
The meteorite crashed on March 17 going approximately 56,000 mph and created a new crater 65 feet wide on the moon according to Space.com.
"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before."
Scientists didn't see the impact occur live, and it was only discovered when Ron Suggs, an analyst at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama viewed surveillance video.
The explosion was recorded by one of the moon's monitoring program's 14-inch telescopes according to Space.com.
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"It jumped right out at me, it was so bright," Suggs said.
Scientists figure the rock is approximately 1-foot wide and weighed between 88 lbs based on the impact and size of the crater left by the explosion.
The explosion created would be the same as setting off 5 tons of TNT according to NASA.
When experts looked back at the even on the video, they realized that the meteor "might not have been an isolated event" according to Space.com.
"On the night of March 17, NASA and University of Western Ontario all-sky cameras picked up an unusual number of deep-penetrating meteors right here on Earth," Cooke said. "These fireballs were traveling along nearly identical orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt."
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