Impactos de meteoroides en la Luna

Abstract

Each year, millions of solid particles, called meteoroids, strike the Earth’s atmosphere, some disintegrate on impact, however others arrive to crash into Earth. In 2006, the University of Huelva (UHU) introduced the first teams to detect meteoroids in Earth’s atmosphere and later also implemented a system to perform automatic detection of meteoroid impacts on the surface of the moon. Meteoroids, as on Earth, continuously impacting on the Moon, but unlike Earth, lacking atmosphere, until the smallest particles make it to the surface. The detection of meteoroids impacting the Moon allows additional information on the flow of interplanetary matter that impacts on our planet. In addition, since the Eath is possible to monitor a much larger region (the slunar surface) than can be accommodated with systems based on the detection of meteoroids in the atmosphere. The UHU and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC) are collaborated on the project MIDAS (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System) to carry out continuous monitoring of the illuminated region Moon in order to detect these impacts.