"Rick" wrote in message
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"BenignVanilla" m wrote
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Do we still find new craters on the moon every now and then? Or was the
damage all done in an early, more entropy-rich solar system?

Not at all. Impacts were far more common in the early stages
of the solar system (more stuff was floating around back then)
but impacts continue today. We almost got blindsided by a
meteor just a few months ago.

I was observing the moon last night, and wondered, "What would an impact
look like?" I wonder if a large enough event could occur that would be
visible to us on earth? I also wonder if the moon acts a bit like a shield,
attracting the more deadly debris to it before it can reach earth. A sort of
lunar broom. Not so iffy, as Bert would say.

BV.