craters on moon?

Question

Based on gravity, where would you expect to find more craters? A) dark side of the moon b) light side of the moon

Answer 1

based on moons gravity there should not be much of a difference between the sides.
i would conclude that the dark side would get more impacts cause the other side is constantly pointing to earth which works like a gravitational shield changing trajectories away from the side pointing to us.
just from statistics...

Answer 2

The moon doesn't have a dark or light side. It has day and night, but one side doesn't always stay in the dark or in light. With that said, since the moon has a 28 day long lunar day, each side of the moon receives the same amount of light in a 28 day period. Therefore, it has no relation to gravity or the number of craters.

Answer 3

The theory of gravitation says that any object has his "personal" gravity. The gravity is gave by size of the object and his concentration of substantiation (how dense it is). So the answer you're looking for is : there are the same numbers of craters on both sides.

Answer 4

The moon is not a terribly asymmetrical object. Although not perfectly of course, the moon is mostly a sphere and so is mostly balanced in its distribution of mass

Based on gravity, the moon has a reasonably equal chance of foreign impact across its entire surface.

To think about probable areas of impact we'd have to pay more attention to the Earth's passage through areas of higher asteroid activity, and the moons probable position during that time .. and other sticky and complicated things like this.

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Answer 5

It depends....but i think it's the dark side because the lighted side is facing us...so it won't do any harm, i think....

Answer 6

What means 'dark side' and 'light side'?


Doug

Answer 7

same