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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If you’ve ever belly flopped into water, you’ll know that even something like water can be pretty hard under the right conditions. The truth is that a lot of meteors fall towards the earth daily, but they’re going really fast and when they enter the atmosphere, the friction gets them hot enough to turn them into dust, so very few of them actually reach the ground, and the pieces that do reach the ground are often small and they’re not going that fast. In contrast when a meteor hits the moon it’s going at full speed when it impacts the surface. That being said there are a lot of large impact craters on the earth, they’re just less apparent since the landscape isn’t barren.
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