Why does the moon have so many craters when Earth doesn’t have, even though Earth’s gravity is stronger and it should be the one attracting the comets?

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Why does the moon have so many craters when Earth doesn’t have, even though Earth’s gravity is stronger and it should be the one attracting the comets?

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Because it doesn’t have an atmosphere, so hurdling space rocks and debris are easily able to hit the moon. As for Earth, it burns up most of the debris that come towards us before it even enters the atmosphere. We get about 50-ish meteors a day, yet they rarely ever make it through.