In the spring of 2024, the Moon received a visitor it could not refuse — a comet or asteroid the size of a small building, striking at full velocity to carve a fresh wound 222 meters wide into a surface already ancient with scars. Named McGetchin after its formal identification this year by NASA researcher Robert Wagner, the crater stands as the largest impact event ever documented in near-real time anywhere in the solar system. Its discovery reminds us that the cosmos is not finished with us, nor with the worlds we are preparing to visit — and that patience, not spectacle, is often the instru