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48 years later NASA's Apollo 17 just found a moon-melting meteorite of dinosaur-killing size

from Forbes

48 years later NASA's Apollo 17 just found a moon-melting meteorite of dinosaur-killing size Forbes Was the moon struck by the kind of meteorite that ended the reign of the dinosaurs on Earth? That event 66 million years ago saw a 6-9 milewide meteorite or comet strike Earth close to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and leave a scar now known as Chicxulub crater. The same thing may have happened on the moon according to a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy by a group of international scientists led by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). READ MORE

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