open new information Parts of a rocket that is regarding to hit the moon actually come from China.
Date 17 Feb 2022 time 12:15
New information from astronomers Parts of the rocket regarding to hit the moon actually belong to China, not SpaceX.
AFP news agency reported new data from Bill Gray, the astronomer behind Project Pluto, a software that calculates the trajectories of asteroids and other objects. In space, sponsored by NASA, it admits that it analyzed the data wrong.
After Gray said in January past indicate that Parts of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that blew up seven years ago and was left in space following its mission. Likely to hit the moon in March with a speed of regarding 9,000 kilometers per hour
But Gray said the rocket part was actually 2014-065B, which was used to propel the Chang’e 5-T1 spacecraft sent by the China Space Agency to explore the moon in 2014, however. not so harsh
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the mistake underscores the problem of a lack of proper tracking of deep space objects. which he agrees with the latest information of Gray And I’m pretty sure the rocket will hit the moon in March. is a rocket from china
McDowell, however, said the attribution of each piece of space junk is fraught with uncertainty. and there is a chance of error
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said at the end of January. whether to use the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to observe holes on the lunar surface that were hit by a rocket This is an exciting opportunity.
Gray told AFP last month that “I’ve been tracking the trajectory of this type of space junk for regarding 15 years, and this is the first accidental lunar impact I’ve ever encountered.”
He added that in the future there will be more accidental collisions with the moon. Due to the increasing number of US and Chinese space missions This results in more space junk being dumped into orbit.
Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP