The moon is tidally locked, and is so much smaller than the Earth, so wouldn’t the Earth filter out any debris heading for the moon?
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The back has even more.
The Moon also doesn’t have an atmosphere to burn up meteors before impact, nor to weather down craters over time to make them less visible
The Moon is also responsible for collecting a lot of meteorite impacts that would have otherwise hit the Earth
Asteroids can also come in at angles that wouldn’t have hit the Earth but do collide with the near side of the moon. They don’t need to pass through the Earth to get to the near side of the Moon. Space is very empty, even when you’re just in the Earth-Moon system, so there’s plenty of space for asteroids to sneak through.
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