# Everyone knows that the moon has craters, right? But when was the last one recorded? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 11, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-knows-that-the-moon-has-craters-right-but-when-was-the-last-one-recorded/939807 "2021-04-11T17:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-knows-that-the-moon-has-craters-right-but-when-was-the-last-one-recorded/939807/26 "2021-04-12T02:08:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > Well, _ **that’s** _ reassuring! > > The biggest crater the Earth has had in 50,000 years is less than one mile across. > > [Meteor Crater - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater) > > Strikes that size were much more common in the very early solar system than they are today. (Except after major collisions in the asteroid belt, such as the one around 470 million years ago): > > [A Distant Asteroid Collision Gave Earthly Biodiversity An Ancient Boost - Universe Today](https://www.universetoday.com/143450/a-distant-asteroid-collision-gave-earthly-biodiversity-an-ancient-boost/) I’ve visited Meteor Crater, in early 2016, and it is a good place to go. The visitors center displays and film are good. They have a piece of the meteorite there, and you can touch it. What’s interesting is that when I knocked on it with my wedding ring, it rang metallically, almost like a bell. Highly recommended, if you’re near Winslow AZ on I-40. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-knows-that-the-moon-has-craters-right-but-when-was-the-last-one-recorded/939807)._