Showing posts with label impact crater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impact crater. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2026

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"





Saturday, June 24, 2023

Stadium-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Weekend

Earth to be hit by such a large size object would be a real climate crisis! These kind of close encounters are more often than you think.
As best as we know such a hit appears to happen only every several thousand or tens of thousands of years.

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Australia’s Yarrabubba Asteroid Impact Crater Is Oldest on Earth

The real dangers to mother/planet earth and humanity that few people want to speak about!

If earth were hit by another asteroid or large size meteor than Global Warming hoax is toast! Perhaps one meteor does not come alone. What about a double whammy in short span of time?

Australia’s Yarrabubba Asteroid Impact Crater Is Oldest on Earth | The Scientist Magazine®: A new study precisely dates the event to 2.229 billion years ago and suggests that it may have been responsible for ending an ice age.