Overview
- Daichi Fujii captured flashes on October 30 at 8:33 p.m. and November 1 at 8:49 p.m. local time, with multiple Japanese telescopes recording the events from different angles.
- An ESA Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre engineer said the impact flashes 'appear real,' noting they looked somewhat brighter than average.
- The first flash was seen just east of the 110-kilometer-wide Gassendi crater and the second to the west of Oceanus Procellarum.
- The objects struck at up to about 96,000 kilometers per hour, producing brief luminous bursts consistent with small meteoroid impacts on the airless lunar surface.
- ESA telescopes did not observe the events because the Moon was too bright over Europe at the time, NASA declined comment during a funding pause, and a suggested Taurid-shower link remains unconfirmed.