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And this next one here about flashes of light seen on the moon and flickers or flashes, some of these can last for just fractions of a minute, are most likely caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface and these are about the size of a baseball and the objects that hit the surface with enough energy to produce heat and that heat causes a brief glow. And these were confirmed back in the 1990s when high speed cameras were being used to monitor the moon surface. Later in the 1990s, flashes were confirmed during the unit meteor shower, this was November 1999, and these were documented in 2002 and published in the journal of the Internet. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7 November... Over the years, most of these impact flashes have been recorded by the European Space Agency funded near-Earth object lunar and optical transients and programmed. And the interesting thing is that a number of these flashes appear in specific areas.
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