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You Can Stand On The Edge Of A Meteor Crater Nearly A Mile Wide In Arizona

Fifty thousand years ago, a chunk of iron about 150 feet wide slammed into the plains of northern Arizona in just a few ...
StarTribune

What was the largest meteorite ever to hit Minnesota?

A giant asteroid the size of three football fields barreled toward Earth. Its destination? Inver Grove Heights. This isn’t science fiction. It actually happened hundreds of millions of years ago, ...
People

Scientists Discover New Crater on the Moon, Bigger Than the Roman Colosseum, That Was Created in a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Impact

Scientists believe the crater was caused by a space fragment the size of a three- to six-story building NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Intuitive Machines via AP Scientists have discovered a massive ...
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NASA scientist discovers largest, newly formed 'once-in-a-century' moon crater after asteroid impact

A NASA scientist discovered the largest newly formed impact crater ever documented in the solar system. The McGetchin Crater formed on the moon between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Moon Just Got a Massive New Crater That’s Wider Than Two End-to-End Football Fields. It’s a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime Observation’

The moon is rocking a massive new crater—and it’s the largest recently formed one that’s been found in the entire solar system. Researchers described the new feature, as well as changes to the lunar ...
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Newly formed moon crater is once-in-a-century discovery

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid the size of a 3- to 6-story building hit the moon. But we didn’t know about it until someone scanning Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter maps ...
Engadget

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or an asteroid that's about the size of a three- to six‑story building slammed into the lunar surface and made the largest modern-day crater in our ...
skyatnightmagazine.com

An asteroid has smashed into the Moon, carving a record-breaking crater. NASA's got the pics to prove it

A scientist working with a NASA spacecraft that orbits our Moon has spotted something amazing on the lunar surface. Robert Wagner, scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, was scanning a ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact ...
CNET

A NASA Scientist Found a Huge New Crater on the Moon by Accident

The new crater was found in 2026, but was likely formed after an impact in spring 2024. Robinson, M. S., Boyd, A. K., Mahanti, P., Manheim, M. R., Speyerer, E. J ...
Space.com

A NASA spacecraft just found a giant new crater on the moon. Here's why everyone's talking about the 'once-in-a-century' discovery

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Something Crashed Into the Moon in 2024, Leaving a Curiously Cold, ‘Once in a Century’ Crater

Scientists working with NASA to study the largest new crater ever found on the Moon say that it has created an over-4-mile-long “cold spot.” Reading time 3 minutes Two years ago, something about the ...