• Question: are the moon rocks big or small

    Asked by anon-246059 to Samantha on 19 Mar 2020.
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      Samantha Faircloth answered on 19 Mar 2020:


      Hello Item! A really good question! They come in all sorts of sizes, just like rocks on Earth. Some of them are less than a millimetre in size because they have been broken up by meteorite impacts, and some are over a meter in size and are called boulders. The Moon doesn’t have any water (or rain) to wear-down the rocks so any damage comes from meteorite impacts….some are so big they create large craters! : -)

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