Bright Meteor

A bright meteor exploded over northern Sonora Mexico the other morning (20 June 2026, 11:06:08 UTC) as seen from one of my Global Meteor Network cameras (located southeastern Arizona USA):

crater shape

Circle?

Pentagon?

Hexagon?

LRO Dataset M1465577656LC

Definitely a Hole

Sometimes it's obvious that it's a hole in the center.  Why and how are these formed?  TBD I hope.

This is from LRO dataset M1502023627LC:

Dark Spots in Lunar Craters

I see an unusual number of these: dark spots right in the center of craters.  This one is typical:

from LRO dataset M1502023137RC.

Pixels in this image are about 1 meter in size, which makes the crater wall about 30 meters in diameter, with the dark spot in the middle about 10 meters in diameter.

Lunar Anomalies #13

A strange looking crater in LRO dataset M1502022708LC:

Lunar Anomalies #12

An unusually shaped large (about 8 meters across) rock, from LRO dataset M1502016457RC:

and in LRO dataset M1502021744LC, there's an oddly shaped outcropping of rock:

Solar Tangent Arc

Yesterday morning (12/13/25) here at my location in southeastern Arizona USA, I witnessed a very rare solar tangent arc.