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Since the moon lacks an atmosphere, there’s nothing to either slow down or burn up objects before they strike the surface. Even the equivalent of a speck of dust, moving at thousands of miles per second, would reach the moon’s surface and leave evidence of its impact – although that evidence might be only a fraction of an inch across.
