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Not sure 225 meters wide qualifies as “massive”. Copernicus is 93 KM wide. Nearby Pytheas is ~20 KM wide. THOSE are “massive”.

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Copernicus is 93 KM wide. Nearby Pytheas is ~20 KM wide. THOSE are “massive”.

I wonder what an impact of that magnitude does to the rotation and position of the moon. I think the Copernicus crater would be equivalent to a 200 mile crater on earth.

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The moon is inching away from Earth.
Impacts on “our” side don’t help.

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Not sure 225 meters wide qualifies as “massive”

We live in an era of competition for clicks, which has translated into breathless and hyperbolic headlines. 'Massive' and 'huge' are words that definitely seem to suffer overuse to the point of meaninglessness.

If a headline says 'massive' wildfire, is it going to be 500 acres or 50,000?

If a headline says a 'huge' explosion, was it a pipebomb or did an entire building blow up?

If they report a 'massive' landslide, did if affect 2 properties or was it a whole mountainside with long runout?

Simply no way to tell anymore, because appending those 'extreme' terms is almost mandatory these days.

(And don't get me started on whoever started the trend of appending 'mega-' as a prefix to everything...)