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The moon doesn't have an atmosphere.
The odds of such impacts are statistical impossibilities which they offer as the norm. Also, the impacts which create such large craters largely wouldn't care about angle because of the required sizes.
Bluntly, the mainstream theory on planetary craters is 100% debunked bullshit. Just like the theory of how the moon was created. More mainstream bullshit.
The moon doesn't have an atmosphere.
It does:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/news/lunar-atmosphere.html
But to your actual point, not dense enough to cause meteors to burn up.
Bluntly, the mainstream theory on planetary craters is 100% debunked bullshit. Just like the theory of how the moon was created. More mainstream bullshit.
To your point, we have multiple kinds of polygonal craters on moons. Some are square. Some are "flat" on one side but not the other.
And we have explanations for those:
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast26sep_1/
No plasma discharge theory required.
In fact, those are not reproducible by research and experiment. As I said, those are confirmed garbage. Just because people play make believe with a paper, doesn't make it true.
The fact is, if these garbage theories were even close to accurate, ALMOST ALL craters would be elongated. And a large share, extremely elongated. Elongation would be the norm - a statistical requirement. Period. The simple fact is, those theories only make sense when you pretend all of the facts don't exist. Which is in fact precisely what mainstream does here.
But if ignoring the observable facts, evidence, scientific method, and statistical impossibilities is your definition of science, we'll clearly never see eye to eye.
Wake up.
Edit: to date, ONLY (of available theories) plasma discharge explains all of the data and is reproducible, and backed by experiment. Period.
As I said, those are confirmed garbage.
No they are not. The only people calling them garbage are laymen who have no idea what they are talking about.
ALMOST ALL craters would be elongated.
No they wouldn't since it requires a rare and special set of circumstances. You didn't read the link, did you?
But if ignoring the observable facts, evidence, scientific method, and statistical impossibilities is your definition of science, we'll clearly never see eye to eye.
You're ignoring the observable facts, evidence, scientific proof, scientific method, statistical analyses, and passing off unfalsifiable tinfoil hat theories as the explanation.
The odds of such impacts are statistical impossibilities which they offer as the norm.
That's a strange opinion to have given the physics involved. Think about it. Even an object crossing the Moon's orbital path exactly perpendicular will collide with the "front" of the Moon because the Moon literally runs into it. Some objects will manage to be timed just right to t-bone the Moon from the side, but it will be less likely that hitting head on.
Bluntly, the mainstream theory on planetary craters is 100% debunked bullshit.
Debunked by what? In your earlier post you say plasma discharges, but what generates the plasma, where can we see the observations of plasma discharges, and more importantly the measurements of the discharges?
Runs into them but not at perfectly perpendicular angle. That's pure fantasy devoid of thought or reason. Sure, it may happen, but it would be exceptionally rare. Absolutely not the 90% case. In fact, the bulk should be elliptical impact craters with some small number near circular. None of which explains the common hex (multifaceted) craters.
Runs into them but not at perfectly perpendicular angle.
Who says they're at a perfectly perpendicular angle? I think you're making an invalid inference based on the assumption that the crater is caused by the transfer of kinetic energy of impact. That's not how it works. When you're talking about objects moving at speeds measured in miles per second the impact isn't like a tossed stone landing in the sand, it's more like a stick of dynamite tossed onto the sand. The object is vaporized on impact, and that incredible instantaneous release of heat is an explosion.The explosion causes a circular crater no matter what angle it arrived on.
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