A 260 km asteroid likely created the Moon’s largest crater, forcing scientists to rethink the scale of ancient lunar impacts.
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- A 260 km Asteroid: Rethinking the Origins of the Moon’s Largest Crater
- A single asteroid, measuring an estimated 260 kilometers in diameter, may have blasted out the largest crater on the Moon—reshaping not just the lunar surface, but our...
- If this impactor estimate holds, it challenges prior assumptions about the size and frequency of catastrophic collisions in the inner solar system. The findings also s...
- The Science Behind the 260 km Hypothesis
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