"Too bad it hit some remote tundra instead of a populated city"? Exactly what are your intentions here? It's a good thing it missed a populated city! Not that a hit on a populated city was particularly likely - there's an awful lot more remote tundra, empty ocean, unpopulated desert, etc. than there is cityscape on Earth.
Actually, an asteroid impact on the Moon that was large enough to leave a naked-eye-visible crater would be disastrous. Something like that would produce a tremendous amount of ejecta (shrapnel) and a lot of it would be blasted out with enough velocity to reach Earth. It'd be in small pieces so I doubt much would reach the ground, but say goodbye to our satellite fleet.
Besides, this is all kind of backwards. Asteroid impacts are very rare, so the lack of an impact in this case is a wake-up call to those who might be unnecessarily freaking out about such a possibility.
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"Too bad it hit some remote tundra instead of a populated city"? Exactly what are your intentions here? It's a good thing it missed a populated city! Not that a hit on a populated city was particularly likely - there's an awful lot more remote tundra, empty ocean, unpopulated desert, etc. than there is cityscape on Earth.
Actually, an asteroid impact on the Moon that was large enough to leave a naked-eye-visible crater would be disastrous. Something like that would produce a tremendous amount of ejecta (shrapnel) and a lot of it would be blasted out with enough velocity to reach Earth. It'd be in small pieces so I doubt much would reach the ground, but say goodbye to our satellite fleet.
Besides, this is all kind of backwards. Asteroid impacts are very rare, so the lack of an impact in this case is a wake-up call to those who might be unnecessarily freaking out about such a possibility.