Abstract
Analysis of observations of unique impact-produced flash near the lunar terminator was performed. Maximal brightness of detected thermal flash is 5.2–5.9m in R band, mass of impacted meteoroid is about 0.18–28 kg. Height of shadow in the place of meteoroid’s impact was only about 1 km, making it possible observations of impact-produced dust particles ejected to the lunar exosphere through their sunlight-scattering response. We detected two (fast and slow) clouds that were expanding with 3 km/s and 0.1 km/s, respectively. The maximal brightness reached by these fast and slow clouds in R band was 6.7m and 10m, respectively. Apparent mass of visible ejecta in fast and slow clouds is constrained to 80–8300 and 6–180 kg, respectively. Fast cloud consists of melt droplets and condensed grains while slow cloud consists of ejected lunar regolith dust particles.
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