Giordano Bruno Crater

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{{lunar crater data |image=]| caption=Giordano Bruno. ''[NASA photo''.| latitude=35.9| N_or_S=N| longitude=102.8| E_or_W=E| diameter=22 km| depth=''Unknown''| colong=258| eponym=[Giordano Bruno-->

Giordano Bruno is a small Moon impact crater on the Far side (Moon) of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb. At this location it lies in an area that can be viewed during a favorable libration, although at such times the area is viewed from the side and not much detail can be seen. It lies between the Harkhebi (crater) to the northwest and Szilard (crater) to the southeast.

When viewed from orbit, Giordano Bruno is at the center of a symmetrical ray system of ejecta that has a higher albedo than the surrounding surface. The ray material extends for over 150 kilometers and has not been significantly darkened by space erosion. Some of the ejecta appears to extend as far away as the Boss (crater), over 300 km to the northwest. The outer rim of the crater is especially bright, compared to its surroundings. To all appearances this is a young formation that was created in the relatively recent past, geologically-speaking. The actual age is unknown, but is estimated to be less than 350 million years.

This feature was named after the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno.

Formation Five monks from Canterbury reported to the abbey's chronicler, Gervase of Canterbury, that shortly after sunset on June 18, 1178, they saw two horns of light on the shaded part of the moon. In 1976 the geologist Jack B. Hartung proposed that this described the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater.

Modern theories predict that there would be a plume of molten matter rising up from the surface of the moon, which is consistent with the monks' description. In addition, the location they recorded fits in well with Bruno's location. Additional evidence of Bruno's youth is its spectacular ray system: because micrometeorites constantly rain down, they kick up enough dust to quickly (in geological terms) erode a ray system. So there is probably enough circumstantial evidence to hold that Giordano Bruno was formed during human history.

More circumstantial evidence that Giordano Bruno was formed by a meteor is the fact that the monks' observation took place during the Taurid meteor shower. This meteor shower, which happens in late June, was possibly responsible for the Tunguska event.

However, the question of Bruno's age is not that simple. The impact creating the 22 km wide crater would have kicked up enough debris to trigger a week-long, blizzard-like meteor storm on Earth -- yet no accounts of such a noteworthy storm of unprecedented intensity are found in any known historical records, including the European, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean astronomical archives. This discrepancy is a major objection to the theory that Bruno was formed at that time.

All this raises the question of what the monks saw. An alternative theory holds that the monks just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see an exploding meteor coming at them and aligned with the Moon. Because meteors appear about 45 to 75 miles up in the atmosphere, the laws of geometric perspective dictate that only a relatively small area in Great Britain would have the perfect geometry to make it look like it was on the Moon.

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