Canterbury Monks See an Explosion on the Moon: A Crater Is Born
Five monks in Canterbury looked up and watched the Moon split open. On June 18, 1178, they described a flaming torch spewing fire, hot coals, and sparks — the lunar surface writhing like a wounded thing. Nobody believed them for centuries. Then scientists matched their account to the Giordano Bruno crater, 22 kilometers wide, still geologically fresh. And here's the part that rewires everything: the Moon still wobbles from that impact. Right now. Measurable in meters. Eight hundred years later, the sky hasn't stopped shaking.
June 18, 1178
848 years ago
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