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Science MemesAs you may have noticed, it's not 2032, so NASA was right.
The real cover up is that they are saying meteors are hitting the moon and making craters when in fact, because the world's natural cheese supply is dwindling, they are scooping giant chunks of moon cheese out and bringing it back to earth.
Big moon trying to get more crater impacts so they can sell you on more big craters.
225m for a hit where there's no atmosphere to slow it down. I wonder if something that would cause a that size of crater on the moon would even make it to the Earth's surface, or if it would burn up before it hit.
It depends on the material.
If the same asteroid that created the 225m wide crater on moon hit earth instead it would burn up in earth atmosphere if it was rocky in nature (~3.6m wide, 73 tons).
If the crater was made by a mostly iron asteroid, it would create a 12.5m crater on earth (~2.3m wide, 51 tons).
The reason for this is that rocky asteroids shatter thus have bigger surface area to burn up.
Iron asteroids stay solid and survive the atmosphere much easily.
A 12.5m crater doesn't sound that big. Sounds like what you get from a bomb in a war zone. Bad if you happen to be right next to it, but If you're a few blocks away you might have shattered windows, but no structural damage.
Where did you get the numbers btw? I took a quick look and couldn't find any details on how big the asteroid was.
Seems like a great place for solar panels
The issue with solar for stuff on the moon is that it's night is very long compared to earth, so anything you power with it needs to be able to shut down (and also get very cold without powered heaters) without harm over that time, or have a comparatively large amount of energy storage. Unless you're at one of a handful of spots at the poles where the sun almost never fully sets.
That's fine, just give the moon a solar panel belt around it's equator.
"It's noon somewhere"
Just put it on the light side if the moon - problem solved.
When I was a kid I thought that any asteroid hitting Earth was bad. Now I gotta ask "where is it going to impact" first.
Asteroid impacts are a bit disturbingly common. It was only 8 years ago that one about twice as powerful as the nukes used on Japan hit earth. Smaller but still over a kiloton have hit in the last two years.
Also how big is it...
How fast is it going
How far away will it end up passing by us?
Will it return…
If it hasn't called me back in a week are we still on for the date?
A meteorite flashed into my backyard in Ohio. It was pretty cool!
That was just last week right? I have a buddy in Cleveland who heard the sound of it breaking the sound barrier around 9am.
Hopefully my house
Sneaky plan by "Big Moon Globes and Images". All of the old globes, posters, and shirts have to be replaced, as we cannot learn with in-accurate images of the Moon. Three Wolves cannot howl at old images of the Moon!
My globe doesn't even have South Sudan on it, and you expect me to have up-to-date maps of the moon?!
Just draw it in
NOT THE MOON
