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Lightcurves of 1999 Leonid Impact Flashes on the Moon

✍ Scribed by Masahisa Yanagisawa; Narumi Kisaichi

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
214 KB
Volume
159
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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✦ Synopsis

Optical flashes observed on the night side of the Moon during the 1999 Leonid meteor shower have attracted the interest of astronomers. These flashes are attributed to high-velocity impacts of Leonid meteoroids on the lunar surface. Here, we report five lunar flashes detected over a 5.8-h observation period centered at 11:25 UT on Nov. 18, 1999, in Japan. The flashes are characterized by an abrupt brightening. Three flashes exhibited afterglows that remained visible for at least 50 ms, which is longer than the duration predicted for radiation from an impact-generated plasma cloud. We show that thermal radiation from hot droplets ejected from the lunar surface during high-velocity impacts could be the cause of the afterglows.

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