LUNAR PERSEIDS: Amateur astronomers watching last month's Perseid meteor shower saw meteoroids hitting not only Earth but also the Moon. The impacts, which they recorded using backyard telescopes and off-the-shelf video cameras, are featured in today's story from Science@NASA.
http://www.spaceweather.com/Above: A map of 100 lunar meteors observed by astronomers at the Marshall Space Flight Center since 2005. Every impact on the map was bright enough to see with an amateur telescope. [more]
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/02sep_lunarperseids.htm
