Comment by mfb- on 14/09/2023 at 17:59 UTC

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• Very* bright, and probably visible for a while if not in sunlight. We saw an impact[1] during a lunar eclipse in 2019. While that was difficult to see with the naked eye, it was just a ~10 kg object. The source of the Tycho crator had billions of times more energy.

1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a-first-earthlings-spot-a-meteor-strike-the-eclipse-darkened-moon/

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