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Discovery may contain metal from asteroid crash, Baylor University researcher says. A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system – the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin – and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study.

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” said lead author Peter B. James,

Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences...