In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater and ejecta found up to 120 km from crater

Amazing stuff! Unfortunately, we do not learn what caused the new crater.

"... A routine search of images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera found a fresh crater as wide as two American football fields ...

The crater is 225 meters wide and formed in April or May 2024 ...

The discovery can help highlight the risks impacts pose to future astronauts. ...

The crater seems to have formed on a boundary between the cratered and craggy lunar highlands and a wide, flat mare, which formed from liquid magma pooling on the moon’s surface. Its depth, about 43 meters on average, and its steep edges suggest it formed in strong material like solidified lava. But its shape is slightly elongated, which suggests the ground beneath the crater is not all the same, Robinson said.

The crater is also surrounded by a bright blanket of ejecta — rock and dust that splashed out in all directions when the impact occurred — that extends hundreds of meters from the rim. ... found other disturbances as far as 120 kilometers from the crater. ..."

In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater "The crater is 225 meters wide, a size expected only once every 139 years"

A new 225-M diameter creator on the moon