When was the last time a meteor crashed into the moon?

Answer 1

Gee, I don't know. I would guess about one second ago.

Serious, there must be millions of meteors hitting the moon every day. About 4 billion meteoroids hit the earth every day, and the moon is about 1/6 the size of Earth, so it gets about 1/6th the number of meteoroids.

You have to include how big the meteor is. For example, a 1 mm meteor hits the Earth about every 30 seconds, so it must be about 1 every 3 minutes for the Moon.

Answer 2

In 1975 the seismographs left behind by Apollo astronauts recorded a train of 1 tonne meteoroids hitting the moon.

But as the first respondant noted, small meteoroids will be pounding the moon all the time.

He did get the moon's size wrong, though. The relative areas open to impact are based on surface area. The surface area of the Earth is about 13 times that of the moon.

The Earth is just under 4 times the linear diameter of the moon, about 50 times the volume and around 13 times the surface area.

Answer 3

just a few minutes ago, i was up there getting a hunk of cheese and wham! almost got my eugenia adapter