Asteroid hit the moon and flung rocks 120 kilometres from the crater

 

The crater site, before and after impact  Image courtesy of NASA/Mark S. Robinson et al. 2026

Joel Kontinen 

An asteroid hit the moon. The area was  222 metres across.

A newly formed crater on the moon is teaching us about our nearest neighbour’s complex geology. The crater, formed by an asteroid impact in 2024, is the largest that we’ve ever watched form in real time.

It was first spotted last year, when researchers compared sets of images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in both 2024 and 2025, and was named McGetchin crater. According to models of how often impacts occur on the moon, one this big – about 222 metres across – is only expected to occur about once every 132 years.

Thus gives us an opportunity to learn about the lunar surface and its geology. “Cratering is probably the most common process that happens in the solar system, so we spend a lot of time trying to understand how a new crater will modify a surface and watching that degrade over time,” says Tyler Powell at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

Some evolutionist think that this  incident will help us to understand what happened on the moon tens or thousands of years ago.

 Source: 

Leah Crane 2026 Asteroid hit the moon and flung rocks 120 kilometres from the crater | New Scientist 16 September

Venus may have had a moon for nearly "2 billion years"

 

Image courtesy of NASA imiages/Shutterstock

Joel Kontinen

Darwinian fables are interesting, as there is no proof of them being true. As with Venus having a moon many billions of years ago.    

Venus has no moon, but a modelling study suggests it probably did have one for "nearly 2 billion years" – before the planet ate it. Understanding this could help us learn about Venus’s previous habitability.

Many large objects probably hit Venus in the early solar system, which could have formed a moon, similar to the giant impact that is thought to have formed Earth’s moon. “There’s a very good chance that Venus did have a moon-forming impact,” says Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside..

 Kane and his colleagues modelled what would have happened if Venus did have a moon, and found that in almost all scenarios, it would have been consumed by the planet,.

Venus rotates quite strangely with respect to the sun, completing a rotation once every 243 days, compared with its orbit of 225 days. This is possibly a result of its thick atmosphere slowing its spin.

In contrast, Earth’s much faster spin transfers angular momentum to our moon, meaning it is moving away a few centimetres each year. For Venus, the opposite would have been true. “The moon is transferring angular momentum inward instead of outward,” says Kane. “It causes the moon’s orbit to catastrophically collapse.”

The researchers found that at the upper limit of their models, a moon about half the mass of our own could have survived around Venus for 1.7 billion years. At twice the mass of our moon, it would have survived just 30 million years, because of the stronger tidal effect.

Paul Byrne at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, says the model is interesting but hard to prove. “It’s exceedingly hard to test this idea because there is basically nothing left behind.” This is because Venus’s surface has been repeatedly resurfaced by volcanism, he says.

In Genesis, God created the Earth and its moon without any evolution.

Source:

Jonathan O’Callaghan 2026 Venus may have had a moon for nearly 2 billion years | New Scientist 2 September 

Giant impactor Theia formed nearby

 

Computational simulation of the impact between a proto-Earth and the small planet Theia. Image courtesy of  Jacob Kegerreis/NASA Ames And Durham University/Institute For Computational Cosmology/Swift/Dirac

Joel Kontinen

In evolutionary theory a very small planed called Theia collided into a proto Earth.  According to the same theory, it formed the Moon and materials from it formed the Earth.

There is no solid evidence that the planet even existed.

Hopp et al. measured iron isotopes in lunar samples, Earth samples, and meteorites. They then combined these results with previous measurements of other elements with different geochemical behaviours. By simultaneously calculating the contributions of Theia material to each of those elements in both bodies, the authors concluded that Theia formed in the inner Solar System, nearby to Earth but possibly slightly closer to the Sun.

Source:

Keith T. Smith 2025 In Science Journals | Science 20 November

 

'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms

 

Image courtecy of NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

Joel Kontinen 

Researchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh. This is the first 'contact binary' moon ever discovered, scientists say.

“When NASA's Lucy mission flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023, it discovered an unexpected companion: a pair of fused moons that scientists named Selam. Now, researchers have proposed a model explaining how Selam may have formed.”

It seems that space is more wonderful than we thought.

“Astronomers supervising Lucy ― a car-sized spacecraft that launched on Oct. 16, 2021 ― had primarily intended to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two swarms of space rocks that lead and lag behind the gas giant as it careens around the sun. However, in January 2023, they added the diminutive main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh — affectionately called "Dinky" — to the spacecraft's travel itinerary as its first destination. This flyby was supposed to be a dress rehearsal, allowing Lucy's team to test a system for tracking and imaging asteroids.

As Lucy approached Dinky, astronomers saw signs that the small asteroid was orbited by an even smaller moon. But when Lucy swooshed past — ultimately coming within 430 kilometres or 267 miles of the asteroid while snapping hundreds of high-definition photos — the researchers saw the truth was even stranger than they predicted. The images revealed that Selam wasn't one, but two "moonlets" touching each other as they orbited Dinkinesh. “

Source:

 Deepa Jain 2024 'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms | Live Science 30 May.

The moon may enter a new geological period thanks to human activity

 

Image courtecy of NASA

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionist think that humanity’s influence on the moon is so great that we should define a new geological epoch, just as we are doing on Earth with the creation of the Anthropocene, researchers argue. We should also create lunar “national parks” to preserve areas for scientific study, they say.

“The Anthropocene is the name given to the epoch in which humans began having a significant impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. The definition is still being agreed upon, but most researchers suggest Earth entered this period in 1950, marked by the presence of plutonium isotopes from nuclear weapons tests in sediment at the bottom of a relatively untouched lake in Canada.”

Source:

Matthew Sparkes. 2023 The moon may enter a new geological period thanks to human activity | New Scientist. 8 December 

The Moon's crater Is 200 years older than evolutionist thought

 Image courtesy of: NASA/JPL/USGS.

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that moon's surface is 200 million years older than they previously estimated.

The new  study relies on the millions of years of the solar systems existence.

“One area that was older than expected was the Mare Imbrium. This crater, now filled with smooth lava flows, makes up the right eye of the "man in the moon." Instead of being 3.9 billion years old, this crater dates back 4.1 billion years, the researchers reported. ”

Suore:

 Pappas,  Stephanie, 2023. , The 'man in the moon' may be hundreds of millions of years older than we thought Live Science 14 July,. , 

Asteroid will zip past Earth on November l

 Image courtesy of Shutterstock, 

Joel Kontinen 

NASA scientist have seen an asteroid that is "potentially hazardous".iit is to rush past earth just in time for Halloween,

It is called 2022 RM4 and it is almost as tall as the world’s tallest building in Burj Khalifa in Dubai and has a diameter of 330 and 740 meters or 1,083 and 2,428 feet

 The asteroid will come to within 2.3 million kilometres   or 2.3 million miles  on November 1. this distance is six times the average distance between Earth and the moon, 

Source:

Turner,  Ben , 2022,  A monstrously large, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will zip through Earth's orbit on Halloween Live Science 28 October, ,

Evolutionists claim that the Earth could have many moons

 

Image courtesy of Billy Quarles.

Joel Kontinen

Evolutioist  claim that the Earth could have many moons. Here is what New Scientist says about this;   

 “Earth could theoretically host two more moons the same size as the current moon. If the extra moons were smaller, our planet could host even more.

The larger planets in our solar system have far more moons than the smaller, rocky worlds – Jupiter has at least 79 moons, whereas Mars has two, Venus has none, and Earth only has the one. Intrigued by this fact-“

However, God created the moon just the size it is. The moon is actually always a supermoon. It tells us about creation and the uniqueness of the Earth.

Without the moon, marine life would die, and soon the rest of our planet’s life would also die, because here under the sun, few things are completely detached from the rest.

The Moon’s size and distance from Earth determine how big tides we have. Without tides marine life would sooner or later come to an end, and our planet could turn into Mars’ twin.

In other words, the Moon looks designed to maintain life on Earth.

The origin of the Moon is a naturalistic dilemma.

 

 Source: 

Crane, Leah, 2022, Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have New Scientist.  12 August 

Scientist do not know how we got our moon

Image courtesy of Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library, 

Joel Kontinen 

Scientist do not know how we got our moon,

 Secular Moon origin hypotheses have not fared well recently.

And the ones that do make it into headlines rely too much on fiction and speculation.

The Moon’s size and distance from Earth determine how big tides we have. Without tides marine life would sooner or later come to an end, and our planet could turn into Mars’ twin.

In other words, the Moon looks designed to maintain life on Earth.

The origin of the Moon is a naturalistic dilemma.

Now, a  computer simulation that traces the moon’s formation in high resolution may explain the mystery of why it is so chemically similar to Earth.

The conventional story for the moons origin  is that a primordial planet named Theia smashed into Earth and spewed molten rock into space. This debris, primarily made up of Theia, then coalesced into the moon over what Darwinist believe in tens of millions of years.

Source::

Wilkins, Alex. 2022.  Moon mystery could be solved by simulation of planetary smash-up. New Scientist 11 March

 

Scientist warm of alien invaders on Earth

 Image courtesy of Scuttleshock, 

Joel Kontinen

We might be invaded by alien organisms. Especially evolutionists believe that, as they don’t believe that God supplies live to all living beings. ,

According to them, the growing demand for space exploration is increasing the chances of alien organisms invading Earth and of Earth-based organisms invading other planets This is the story of a new study published Noember  17 in the journal BioScience.

The harsh conditions of outer space make it difficult for potential hitchhiking organisms to survive a ride on the outside of a human spacecraft.  

However, the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft that crashed into the Moon in 2019 while carrying thousands of tardigrades, microscopic animals that can survive extreme conditions, including the vacuum of space, 

The researchers also take a look at the earth’s ecosystem, at how invaging species have taken on new territory, especially in Australia. as the native wildlife in those places hasn't evolved adaptations to deal with such invaders.

But this might be evaded but putting a trust in the Creator. ,  

Source:    

Pester, Patrick, 2021. Alien organisms could hitch a ride on our spacecraft and contaminate Earth, scientists warn Live Science. 23 November,  

The Search For Alien Life Is Getting Odd

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Kuva: NASA, Public Domain.

Joel Kontinen 

For evolutionists, hints of bacteria on Venus are encouraging, but finding life beyond Earth is the easy part. A new analysis suggests the evolution of human-like intelligence on another planet is more improbable than we like to imagine EARTH makes life look easy. 

Our home planet is teeming with some 9 million species, including at least one smart enough to contemplate intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe. We love to think it is out there – that we aren’t a one-off, alone in an unimaginably vast cosmos. But we haven’t yet observed a truly earth-like planet, with a big planet such as Jupiter to keep as save and a good-sized  moon that keeps  our planet ‘s ocean going. 

 A string of discoveries has boosted the idea that  extraterrestrial life might be abundant. 

The growing catalogue of exoplanets, many orbiting within the “habitable zone” of their host stars, points to seemingly ample real estate on which life might be found. Closer to home, subsurface oceans on icy moons in the outer solar system hint that some life-friendly conditions might be commonplace. And then there is last month’s discovery of phosphine in the poisonous atmosphere of Venus, which suggests life might flourish even in seemingly hostile places. 

However, evolutionists have forgotten a key idea for life on Earth - the moon.  Writing in Nature, 

Robin Canup states: “The Moon is large enough to stabilize our planet's rotation, holding Earth's polar axis steady to within a few degrees. Without it, the current Earth's tilt would vary chaotically by tens of degrees.” 

 It might be easy to imagine that intelligent life has evolved on at least one planet around one of the 100 billion or so stars in our galaxy. So easy, in fact, that we tend to assume, given the vastness of the visible universe, that there must be other technological civilisations out there. Yet we haven’t heard from them. Why? Because no one created it. In the absence of evidence from deep space, some astronomers have recently returned their focus to Earth – and the only example of intelligent life we have – for a fresh look at the question. What they found meshes with what biologists have been whispering for a while: that anyone expecting to hear from an alien civilisation should settle in for a long wait. 

Source:

Falk, Dan, 2020. Why we're in for a long wait to hear from intelligent aliens, New Scientist 30 September 

Tardigrades are on the Moon

Image courtesy of Scuttleshock, fair use doctrine.




Joel Kontinen

The Israeli moon mission Beresheet that crashed into the Moon last spring, had a load of water bears on board.

The supercreatures are really super, even though they are from the Cambrian or 530 million years ago.

The millions of years is a misnomer.

Evolutionists have also found a new creature, almost as small as a tardigrade.

“But as long as the tardigrades remain on the moon, their chances of spontaneously awakening are low. Without liquid water, the tiny creatures will remain in a tun state, and while there's evidence of ice on the moon, liquid water is nowhere to be found. “

Source,

Weisberger, Mindy. 2019, There Are Thousands of Tardigrades on the Moon. Now What? Live Science (15 August).

What If the Earth Was Flat?

Image courtesy of shutterstock, Fair Use Doctrine.


Joel Kontinen


If the earth was flat, there would be no Moon. That would be a hazard for people living here – and the moon is responsible for giving us tides.

Most scholars who wrote on the shape of the earth said that our planet was round.

One of the earliest writers to do so was the English monk known as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (673–735). In his book De temporum ratione (On the Reckoning of Time), he explicitly stated that the earth was round.

Iohannes de Sacrobosco (ca. 1195–1256) was a monk and an astronomer who wrote an entire book on the shape of the earth. Entitled De sphaera mundI (On the Sphere of the World), it was published in 1230. His argumentation sounds very modern:

“THE EARTH A SPHERE. -- That the earth, too, is round is shown thus. The signs and stars do not rise and set the same for all men everywhere but rise and set sooner for those in the east than for those in the west; and of this there is no other cause than the bulge of the earth. Moreover, celestial phenomena evidence that they rise sooner for Orientals than for westerners. For one and the same eclipse of the moon which appears to us in the first hour of the night appears to Orientals about the third hour of the night, which proves that they had night and sunset before we did, of which setting the bulge of the earth is the cause.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was probably the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages. In his Summa Theologica, he described the earth as being round like a ball. He pointed out that it was not shaped like a shield.

In addition to books, we can also see evidence for a spherical earth in the symbols that the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire used. A coin minted during the reign of Emperor Theodeseus II (who ruled from AD 408 to AD 450) already shows the Globus Cruciger, which is Latin for “cross-bearing orb”. The cross symbolises the victory of Christ on the cross and the orb beneath it depicts the shape of the Earth.

The Globus Cruciger became a symbol of imperial power. For instance, a 7th century coin depicts Emperor Leontius holding this object.

A medieval painting shows Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1017–1056), being presented with this symbolic sphere. And a 13th century painting shows Emperor Fredrick I Barbarossa holding the Globus Cruciger in his hand.

It looks very round.There are some people who think the Earth is flat, for instance
here.

Source:


Pappas, Stephanie, 2019. What If the Earth Was Flat? Live Science (22 November).

Wish Upon a Moon

Exomoon or not? An artist’s impression of the MOA-2011-BLG-262 system. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.




Joel Kontinen

The Moon is one of the things that make Earth a privileged planet. Writing in Nature, Robin Canup states:

“The Moon is large enough to stabilize our planet's rotation, holding Earth's polar axis steady to within a few degrees. Without it, the current Earth's tilt would vary chaotically by tens of degrees.”

The Moon’s size and distance from Earth determine how big tides we have. Without tides marine life would sooner or later come to an end, and our planet could turn into Mars’ twin.

In other words, the Moon looks designed to maintain life on Earth.

The origin of the Moon is a naturalistic dilemma.

New Scientist reports on a naturalistic scenario that has exomoons wandering all over the universe.

There is scant evidence for the existence of even a single exomoon, but why would they let facts spoil a good naturalistic hypothesis?


Sources:

Canup, Robin. 2013. Planetary science: Lunar conspiracies. Nature 504, 27–29 (4 December).

Wenz, John. 2017The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their homeworlds New Scientist (26 December).

The Moon’s Surface Might Be 100 Times Younger Than Previously Thought, Recent Impact Craters Suggest

Here’s one of the recent impact craters. Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.





Joel Kontinen

The Moon’s origin is a naturalistic mystery. Now it seems that its age is also a dilemma for those who subscribe to billions of years.

In the past 7 years, meteorites have bombarded the Moon far more frequently than scientists previously thought. Recently, Nature published a paper by Emerson Speyerer, at Arizona State University in Tempe, and colleagues.

They compared older and more recent pictures taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and found at least 222 new impact craters.

This has far-reaching consequences. A Nature News article explains:

“Planetary geologists will also need to rethink their understanding of the age of the lunar surface, which depends on counting craters and estimating how long the terrain has been pummelled by impacts.”

On Space.com, Charles Choi brings up more surprises:

“The scientists also found broad zones around these new craters that they interpreted as the remains of jets of debris following impacts. They estimated this secondary cratering process is churning the top 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) of lunar dirt, or regolith, across the entire lunar surface more than 100 times faster than thought.”

" ‘I'm excited by the fact that we can see the regolith evolve and churn — a process that was believed to take hundreds of thousands to millions of years to occur — in images acquired over the past several years,’ Speyerer told Space.com.”

While believers in millions of years still think that only the Moon’s surface is young, they might well be mistaken. Time and again, planetary scientists are surprised at what they see: almost all planets, moons, and comets – and even Saturn’s rings – look a lot younger than they should in a solar system that they believe is “4.6 billion years” old.

Sources:

Choi, Charles Q. 2016. Impact! New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought. Space.com (12 October).

Witze, Alexandra. 2016. Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected. Nature News (12 October).

Potassium Kills Moon Origin Hypothesis

Potassium isotopes in lunar rocks like this killed the leading Moon origin hypothesis. Image courtesy of NASA.




Joel Kontinen

Secular Moon origin hypotheses have not fared well recently.

And the ones that do make it into headlines rely too much on fiction and speculation.

The latest casualty is the view that relies on the collision between a Mars-sized body and a proto-Earth. A paper in Nature compared the potassium-41 and potassium-39 levels in lunar rocks and terrestrial rocks.

Science Daily summarises the results:

“The leading theory for the moon's formation got in trouble recently when it was revealed that the moon and Earth are isotopic twins. Now highly precise measurements of the isotopes of an element that was still condensed at the ‘cut off’ temperature when material started to fall back to Earth suggest a dramatic solution to the problem.”

The expression ‘got in trouble’ is an understatement. The hypothesis or story is practically dead.



Source:

Washington University in St. Louis. 2016. Moon is proto-earth's mantle, relocated, chemistry suggests. Science Daily. (12 September).