From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows.nul>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:31 -0600
Archived: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:09:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Transient Lunar Phenomena


>From: Terry Colvin <fortean1.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>,
>Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:48:54 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Transient Lunar Phenomena

>Mysterious Moon Flashes Signs Of 'Last Gasps'?
>from National Geographic News

>http://snipr.com/d09is

>Astronomer Arlin Crotts is trying to solve a 400-year-old
>puzzle. Ever since the invention of the telescope, said the
>Columbia University astrophysicist, observers around the world
>have occasionally watched small areas of the moon brighten or
>'turn fuzzy'. Sometimes they even turn reddish.

>Because the bright patches are ephemeral, lasting only a few
>minutes, these events have come to be known as transient lunar
>phenomena, or TLPs. "About 1,500 of these have been reported,"
>Crotts said.

>Astronomers already know they're not meteorite impacts. Those
>produce brighter, briefer flashes as the meteorite hits the
>surface and vaporizes. But nobody yet knows what TLPs are - or
>even whether they truly exist.


Trivia for UFO buffs...

Answer:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976STIN...7623125H

and which ufologist and astronomy educator wrote about such
phenomena in 1981?

Answer:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1981JRASC..75..237R




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