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HOLY SHIT NEW IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON This crater is 222 m (728 ft) across, and formed in spring 2024. Statistical modelling tells us this is a 1-in-132 year event. So the last time a crater this big formed on the Moon was 1894.

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I think we should have telescopes with video cameras observing the moon continuously, so we can catch the next big impact on video

Would the right way to model a 1 in 132 years chance be a poisson dist with lamda of 1/132? In that case, ≥50% chance of at least one impact this size happening in the past 92 years. After 132 years it gets up to a 63% chance (I think?)

I wonder what the chances are that a space agency could get a rover there to take samples in the next decade or so? I wonder if there would be valuable science to be learned from such samples, or if we'd need them in the immediate aftermath to be useful?