What caused the moon's craters?

Answer 1

They are caused by impacts by asteroids, meteors or other moving things in space. They may also be caused by volcanoes erupting from the center of the moon. Many hit the moon because it does not have an atmosphere to protect it like we do.

Answer 2

The moons craters are formed by rocks in space (asteroids and meteoroids) that have collided with the moon. The craters remain intact for millions of years, since there is no wind, atmosphere, running water or anything else to erode them away.

Answer 3

The craters on the Moon are holes caused by the impact of meteors (meteoroids), many billion of them over many millions of years. The Moon has no atmosphere to stop space rocks of all sizes from hitting the surface. There is also very little erosion to wear them away, so the craters last practically forever.

On impact, a meteroroid blasts a deep central hole and throws material up to form a raised rim (edge) and ray systems (lines of debris extending out, especially in the direction of impacts).

Answer 4

Craters occur when objects such as meteors crash into the face of the moon. The reason that there are far more craters on the moon than on the earth is due to the lack of atmosphere on the moon. Where meteors burn up in earth's atmosphere, they are free to fall on the moon.

Answer 5

F=ma. What this means (from Isaac newton) is that force (F) is the product of mass (m) and acceleration (a).

Imagine you are an asteroid, traveling merrily through space, clipping along on your annual orbit of the sun. Suddenly up looms the moon in your path, and, being an asteroid, you are unable to veer to the right or to the left, or up or down (since you're in space). Wham, you smack into the lunar surface with such force, actually accelerating (by virtue of the moon's gravitational pull) before you strike, that you are heated into plasma. Material is blown in all directions, settling back around the lunar surface in streaks radiating outwards from the site of your impact.

Astertoids, meteoroids, comets--all of these moving through the interplanetary space of our solar system are what create impact craters.
Meteors.

Answer 6

Inertia provides the force necessary to form craters on the moon. This inertia was caused by comets, meteors and asteroids that hit the surface.

Answer 7

The craters on the Moon are considered to be impact craters, caused by meteoroids striking the Moon.

Answer 8

The moon's craters were mostly formed by impacts from meteorites and asteroids colliding with its surface. These impacts occurred over billions of years and created the varied landscape we see today.

Answer 9

by asteroids that hit the moon