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Does Neptune have impact craters

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11y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No, it does not and never will have impact craters.

Neptune is a gas giant. A gas giant is composed of gasses, with a molten core and usually an extremely windy atmosphere with thousand-mile an hour winds full of ices, rocks and debris.

Because a gas giant does not have a solid surface, there is nothing for celestial objects to hit and cause a crater. An object entering Neptune would either be swept away by the strong winds or be vaporised by the exposed molten core.

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