A rocket will smash into the far side of the moon at 5,800 mph (9,300 kph) on March 5. It may take weeks, even months, to confirm the impact through satellite images. The crater will be big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers.
It’s not clear who it belongs to, but Chinese officials are dubious it came from their country. The object is expected to carve a crater up to 66 feet (10 to 20 meters) in size on the moon’s surface.
SpaceX originally took the rap for the upcoming lunar litter after asteroid tracker Bill Gray identified the collision course in January. He corrected himself a month later, saying the “mystery object” was not a SpaceX Falcon rocket upper stage from a 2015 launch. Low-orbiting space junk is relatively easy to track.
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