New Lunar Crater

A rock about a foot wide slammed into the Moon March 17, blowing a crater some 65 feet wide.  NASA estimates it was traveling at roughly 56,000 miles an hour.  Of course, the new crater is a minnow by lunar standards, but the flash of the impact was bright enough to have been visible from Earth by the unaided human eye.

Also on March 17, several fireballs burned up in Earth's atmosphere, so the lunar impactor may have been part of a larger swarm.