A basketball-sized rock hit the moon during the last lunar eclipse
Professional and amateur astronomers used images and video to analyze the impact
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LUCKY STRIKE Amateur astronomers caught lucky views of an object roughly the size of a basketball smacking into the moon and producing a bright flash of light (inset) during a lunar eclipse on January 21.
Fritz Pichardo/Dominican Astronomical Society