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In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater

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In a rare event, the moon got a massive new crater

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Space@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA orbiter got to watch.

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Strictly speaking no crater can be massive, because a hole by definition is a lack of mass
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  Except for black holes
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