1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello everyone, I'm Eves and welcome to This 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a podcast that really believes in 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: the saying you learn something new every day. Today is June. 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: The day was June. Just after sunset several months from 6 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: Canterbury reportedly saw the moon split into two and explode 7 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: into flames. This happened on June on the Julian calendar, 8 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: but took place on June when going by the Gregorian calendar. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: English chronicler Gervais wrote about the event. According to translations, 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: Gervais set the following, Now there was a bright new moon, 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: and as usual in that phase, its horns were tilted 12 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: towards the east, and suddenly the upper horns split into 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: from the midpoint of this division of flaming toward which 14 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: sprang up, spewing out over a considerable distance fire, hot coals, 15 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: and sparks. Gervais went on to say that the quote 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: moon throps like a wounded snake, and that the phenomenon 17 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: happened a dozen or more times. In six planetary geologist 18 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: Jack D. Her Tongue's paper about the eleven seventy observation 19 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: was published in the paper, heart Tongue said that the 20 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: event was likely not just the product of someone's imagination. 21 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: He suggested that the phenomenon could have occurred because of 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: cloud layers or turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. He also 23 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: suggested that a meteoroid could have been along the line 24 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: of sight to the Moon, but his best guess was 25 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: that the description was consistent with an impact on the 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: lunar surface. He acknowledged that the probability of such a 27 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: lunar impact happening during recorded history was small. Based on 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: the location and sides of the event, he concluded that 29 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: the supposed impact observed that day formed the crater Giordano Bruno, 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: which was named after an Italian philosopher and friar. The 31 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,239 Speaker 1: crater is about fourteen miles or two kilometers in diameter. 32 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: It's on the far side of the Moon and is 33 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: one of the youngest large craters on the lunar surface, 34 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: but the idea that the crater was formed in medieval 35 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: times is not universally accepted. A study released in two 36 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: thousand one suggested that the event people witnessed in eleven 37 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: seventy eight was not the impact that created Giordano Bruno. 38 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: It said that this kind of impact would cause a 39 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: week long meteor storm on Earth, but there is no 40 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: evidence that such a storm occurred. Other researchers have suggested 41 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: that the crater formed more than a million years ago, 42 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: and as far as what the monks actually saw, modern 43 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: theories posit that a meteor exploded as it passed in 44 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: front of the Moon. Only the monks would have been 45 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: able to see the event from their specific location on Earth. 46 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: There's still debate over the true formation age of Georgana Bruno. 47 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm Eves Jeff Cote and hopefully you know a little 48 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: more about history today than you did yesterday, and if 49 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: you have any comments or suggestions, you can send them 50 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: to us at this day at i heart media dot com. 51 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: If you refer to hit us up on social media, 52 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: leave us a note at t D I h C 53 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Thanks so much for 54 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: listening to the show and we'll see you tomorrow. 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