The piece of old space junk expected to crash into the moon in early March that was originally thought to be from SpaceX is actually an old Chinese rocket multiple astronomers believe. The rocket chunk is expected to hit the moon at about 5700 mph on. The rocket which is as heavy as an Asian elephant is set to strike the surface of the far side of the moon on March 4. Abandoned rocket hits the Moon - scientists. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the moon at 5800mph. The three-tonne rocket part which is hurtling through space at 5800mph is expected to hit at 1225 on Friday. A piece of a rocket is expected to collide with the moon in a few days. However the impact will be on the far side of the moon and not visible from Earth.ĮT on March 4. The discarded rocket stage will be traveling at a blistering 5771 mph. This morning a piece of space junk smacked right into the far side of the moon. Rocket Set to Hit Moon Was Built by China Not SpaceX Say Astronomers Tuesday 15 February 2022 - 0845 A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on March 4 but contrary to what had been announced it was built not by Elon Musks company but by China experts now say Laurent EMMANUEL AFPFile. The rocket which is as heavy as an Asian elephant is set to strike the surface of the far side of the moon on March 4.īy Georgina Rannard BBC News.
He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of. The debris a piece of a rocket about the size of a school bus had been floating in. Several astronomers who have been tracking the piece of space junk say it is from China although Chinese officials disagree. Astronomers first thought the rocket part had been launched by Elon Musks SpaceX. The team is estimating that the booster from the Chinese rocket will hit somewhere in or near the Hertzsprung crater on the moons far side the university noted.Īstronomers say a rocket likely hit the moon last night based on the law of gravity but experts told UPI on Friday there are currently no. The trash is believed to be a spent Long March 3C rocket booster from the launch of Change 5-T1 a Chinese experimental robotic spacecraft that lifted off in 2014. Mon 2156 EST A rocket expected to crash into the moon in early March was built by China not SpaceX it has emerged. Trending News Today China S Rocket Will Fall On The Moon At A Speed Of 9300 Kmph India S Chandrayaan 2 Will Take Pictures Hindustan News Hub Three-tonne piece of space junk is likely to have left a 66ft crater after slamming into the lunar surface at 5800mph scientists say A used rocket thought to belong to China is believed to have.Ĭhinese rocket hits the moon. The object is probably part of a rocket that launched a small Chinese spacecraft called Change 5-T1 towards the Moon in 2014.
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Bill Gray who writes the popular Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects originally reported that the junk was a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage launched from Florida in February 2015.