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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by widforss on Monday May 08, 2017 @04:35AM (#14290077)
> Might be related to why moon's surface is so scarred and yet in many centuries of recorded (astronomical) history (since the invention of telescope) we haven't seen any major lunar impact events.

Except for that 1178 event then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_(crater)

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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by JetSetWilly on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:17AM (#14290448)
If you read the section you linked it has some very serious - I would say fatal - objections listed to the theory that the impact occurred in 1178.
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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by throwanem on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:15AM (#14290219)
...half a millennium or so before the telescope was invented?
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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by badosu on Monday May 08, 2017 @07:14AM (#14290646)
I can't comment on this specific event, but there are many accounts of astronomical events visible to the naked eye that were proven to be a useful resource for contemporary astronomy [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1054#Chinese_astronomy

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Re:Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013) by kyberias on Monday May 08, 2017 @05:40AM (#14290293)
We can assume events of this magnitude can be seen with naked eye. It the the Moon after all. Apparently this is based on recorded eye witness testimony.
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