Fact Check: Dramatic video of asteroid exploding after landing on Moon is just CGI
India TodayA video that quickly went viral on social media purports to show the dramatic moment when an asteroid exploded upon impact with the Moon. A Facebook user shared this video and wrote: “Moon hit by an asteroid.” Similar posts can be seen here and here. In the video’s comments section, Sinclair wrote: “NASA has shared videos of impacts on the moon, and there was a flash, but yeah this is just an edit.” In another comment, he wrote: “NASA has been sharing videos of impacts exploding on the moon for years. A Japanese scientist Daichi Fugii recently recorded some explosions from impacts on the moon too.” On February 25, 2023, a Japanese astronomer called Daichi Fuji shared a video on Twitter that he claimed showed a meteorite’s impact with the Moon.
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