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cm0002@literature.cafe to Space@mander.xyz · 4 days ago

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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cm0002@literature.cafe to Space@mander.xyz · 4 days ago
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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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    Don’t try to find it in the picture, folks. At that resolution the area of the crater would be less than two thousandths (2/1000) of a pixel if it were in the centre of the photograph.

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      So OP and I clearly have different definitions of the word "massive. "

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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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