It forms a crater or dint.
Objects that hit the moon are typically referred to as meteoroids or asteroids. When they reach the moon's surface, they create impact craters.
The earth and moon.
A Impact Basin
If identical objects are dropped under different gravitational conditions, such as on Earth and on the Moon, they will fall at different rates due to the difference in gravitational pull. The object on the Moon will fall more slowly because the Moon has lower gravity than Earth. However, assuming there is no air resistance, both objects will accelerate towards the surface until they hit the ground.
That happens at New Moon and it is the time for a solar eclipse when those three objects line up exactly.
The moon has plenty of craters, many of which can be seen from Earth, with a good telescope or binoculars. The craters are there, because the moon has no atmosphere for the objects to burn up in, so all of them hit the moon.
Craters on the moon are formed when objects from space, like asteroids or meteoroids, collide with its surface. The moon lacks an atmosphere to protect it, so these objects hit the surface directly, creating impact craters. Over time, these craters have accumulated, giving the moon its pockmarked appearance.
The craters on the moon were formed by impacts from meteoroids and asteroids over billions of years. Since the moon has little to no atmosphere to burn up these objects before they hit the surface, they collide directly with the moon's rocky terrain, creating craters of various sizes.
asteriods would hit earth,spinning faster,ocean tides reduced etc
impact basins or is it magnetic fields? yea its impact basins!!
When objects hit the moon, they create craters due to the impact of the collision. The energy from the impact causes the surface material to be displaced and ejected, leaving behind a depression in the surface known as a crater.
I think it has something to do with the moon and the Sun. I think it happens when the Sun's rays hit the moon at just the right angle.