Seeing the impossible: meteors in the Moon

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Jun 2000

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 13-22 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Moon, Lunar Atmosphere, Meteors, Meteoroid Impacts

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Over the time span of a decade beginning circa 1940, numerous observers reported the apparent detection of luminous meteors in a supposed lunar atmosphere. These observations run counter to our present-day knowledge and it is now understood that the Moon has no gaseous envelope in which meteoroid ablation can occur. Before circa 1950, however, the presence of a tenuous lunar atmosphere, in which meteoroid ablation was theoretically possible, could not be ruled out by the available observations. It is argued here that the observers who reported the apparent detection of lunar meteors unconsciously "molded" imperfect perceptions to fit a pre-existing, but flawed theoretical ideal. The term philosophical parallel is introduced to describe this phenomenon.

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