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?
In: Planetary Science
Think about how often lunar eclipses happen (that’s where the Earth blocks the sun from hitting the moon). Not very often right? That’s basically the percentage of the time that the earth is “protecting” the moon from the sun.
Basically the moon is so far away from earth it’s only protected a tiny portion of the time from a given direction.
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