{"id":743506,"date":"2022-12-14T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743506"},"modified":"2022-12-14T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:46:43","slug":"new-study-says-left-over-planetesimals-not-asteroids-created-the-moons-largest-craters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=743506","title":{"rendered":"New study says left-over planetesimals, not asteroids, created the moon&#039;s largest craters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moon&#8217;s pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It&#8217;s marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.) The largest ones are called impact basins, not craters. Now, a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters claims that asteroids didn&#8217;t create the basins; leftover planetesimals did.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-left-over-planetesimals-asteroids-moon-largest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New study says left-over planetesimals, not asteroids, created the moon&#8217;s largest craters<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon&#8217;s pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It&#8217;s marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.) The largest ones are called impact&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}