Massive Asteroids Created Craters On Moon, Planets, Findings Show

Credit: Moon: NASA
HOUSTON—An asteroid at least 10 times more massive than originally estimated appears responsible for a prominent impact site on the Moon known as the Imbrium Basin. New findings suggest the early inner Solar System was populated by many such large protoplanet-sized asteroids and their fragments that...

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