How old are the moons craters?

Answer 1

The number of craters on the moon are too many to count. Approximately 300,000 craters with diameters of 1 km or more are visible from ground based telescopes. High-definition photographs from lunar probes reveal millions of craters. Extreme closeups show countless microscopic craters.

Answer 2

The average age of the Moon's craters is around 1 billion years, but there are some that are much older and date back to the early history of the solar system, while others are relatively young and formed within the last few million years.

Answer 3

I do not know of any way to count them all? Craters on the moon can be as tiny as in 'pebble size' because there is no atmosphere. No atmosphere also means no erosion of the surface. Also many will have been obscured by larger impacts.

Also, the moon is in geosynchronous rotation in its orbit about the earth. We never see 1/2 of the moons surface, but I should say in no way does the moon have a continuous dark side.

The sun shines throughout the entire moons surface, only one side is visible from the earth always.

I make mention to this because the craters that we can see on the moon from earth, are results of objects mostly just missing earth because of the geosynchronous rotation of the moon these meteors trajectory must arrive from nearly the opposite direction 'behind the earth' in regards to the moon.

I do not think it is possible to know how many craters there are on the moon, put it this way, if our moon is 1/6 the size of earth and if it has that many craters, I am pretty happy we have an atmosphere.

Answer 4

Craters as old as 4.1 billion years have been estimated by the Apollo missions, but it's possible that even older craters exist, going back to the moon's formation 4.5 billion years ago.

The moon is thought to have resulted from a huge collision some 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still relatively young. A large body the size of mars is thought to have collided with the young earth, then the debris gathered into a sphere and went into orbit around our planet. Since its formation, it has been subjected to many millions of bombardments from meteoroids and asteroids.

Answer 5

There are millions of craters on the moon, the number has never been totalled up. Part of the problem is that only the larger craters (more than a few hundred meters are easily seen and counted, and the far side of the moon (which is not easily seen) is lakely to have as many craters as the more familiar near side.

Answer 6

Billions.

There are over 500,000 craters with a diameter larger than 1 km

Answer 7

It keeps changing so nobody knows for to long

Answer 8

There are a huge number of craters on the Earth, including very small impact sites. There are about 65 named and documented craters on the planet.

Answer 9

It depends on the asteroids that make them. South Pole Aitken basin is the largest crater on the moon, and it's 2,240 km in diameter.

Answer 10

after the moon formed asteroids slammed into the moon.