[Arthalion]

Yeah, that will be a fun one to explain. How does a moon, even a small one like this, absorb an impact capable of cratering 75% of its diameter and NOT shatter? The size of the crater versus the size of the moon seems impossible.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Flying objects out in space have no weight only the gravity of the body they hit imparts weightiness to the projectile, so an impact would not be as shattering hitting a small chunk of stuff like this as it would if it hit the earth for instance.

[idkfa]

It looks like a huge sink hole, not a crater. Notice some of the smaller craters are stretched into ellipses along the edge of the big "crater". These must have been existing and elongated as the ground sank. There are no new craters along this edge.

[purpleland]

Yeah, that will be a fun one to explain. How does a moon, even a small one like this, absorb an impact capable of cratering 75% of its diameter and NOT shatter? The size of the crater versus the size of the moon seems impossible.

From totally stuck-in-stupid about astronomy, but couldn't this irregularly shaped moon be a cast-off after it was formed on a larger surface?