Definitely no moss gathered.

[Lincsbodger]

A gigantic rumbling stone ball as big as a three-storey house has thundered across the surface of the moon, smashing through a crater wall before coming to rest deep in the lunar pockmark's interior:

NASA Image, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

 

[Gasman28]

More like Tiger Woods golf ball in a bunker - he's in the sh1t again

 

[JMLanders]

Did the source give an indication of how long ago this happened?

 

[Lincsbodger]

Did the source give an indication of how long ago this happened?

Its recent, the Orbiter is making a complete 1 meter resolution map of the Moon, the last image of this area from a few months ago doesnt have these markings. The lump of rock that did this is about 10 metres across. That'd make a dent in your car bonnet if it hit you.

 

[JMLanders]

Did the source give an indication of how long ago this happened?

Its recent, the Orbiter is making a complete 1 meter resolution map of the Moon, the last image of this area from a few months ago doesnt have these markings. The lump of rock that did this is about 10 metres across. That'd make a dent in your car bonnet if it hit you.

Provided it missed the double decker bus that Elvis is living on up there, I'm a happy man

Has anyone calculated the speed of impact? Presumably the spaces between the bounce spots could help work this out.

 

[sooey]

it doesn't look that recent, that crater ejecta (if that's what it is) appears to be covering some of the bounce marks.

 

[JMLanders]

it doesn't look that recent, that crater ejecta (if that's what it is) appears to be covering some of the bounce marks.

You're brave

 

[sooey]

why?

 

[joe-90]

Is it God playing marbles?

Do rocks on the moon land slower due to the lower gravity?

 

[Thermo]

psb

 

[Nige F]

Did the source give an indication of how long ago this happened?

. That'd make a dent in your car bonnet if it hit you.

Provided it missed the double decker bus that Elvis is living on up there, I'm a happy man

Has anyone calculated the speed of impact? Presumably the spaces between the bounce spots could help work this out.

Barnes Wallis is working on it

 

[ColJack]

Is it God playing marbles?

Do rocks on the moon land slower due to the lower gravity?

slower than what?

I suppose that they would compared to an earth type planet with no atmosphere ( so no decelleration due to friction with the air )
then assuming the same approach speed, the accelleration due to gravity wouldn't be as strong so it wouldn't be sped up as much.

 

[joinerjohn]

I read on the Nasa LRO website that this rather large rock had broken away from the rim of a crater that the small crater lies within and rolled to where it now lies. A photo taken several months before this one confirms that this rockfall has happened within the last few months.

 

[joe-90]

Is it God playing marbles?

Do rocks on the moon land slower due to the lower gravity?

slower than what?

I suppose that they would compared to an earth type planet with no atmosphere ( so no decelleration due to friction with the air )
then assuming the same approach speed, the accelleration due to gravity wouldn't be as strong so it wouldn't be sped up as much.

I'm wondering why it bounced rather than vaporised as it would on earth.

 

[joe-90]

I read on the Nasa LRO website that this rather large rock had broken away from the rim of a crater that the small crater lies within and rolled to where it now lies. A photo taken several months before this one confirms that this rockfall has happened within the last few months.

I should have read this first.