About 3 tons of space junk to collide withthe moonwhat would happen to a huge crater on the surface of the astronomical body.
The remnants of a rocket are expected to smash into the dark side of the moon at a speed of 9,300 km, on Friday. It may take several weeks or even months to confirm the impact of the impact through satellite images, as it is difficult for observatories (telescopes) to detect it.
Experts believe the remnants of the rocket have been swirling randomly through space since China launched it nearly a decade ago. But Chinese officials doubt it’s theirs.
Regardless of its nickname, scientists expect that the waste might cause a crater 10 to 20 meters wide, emitting lunar dust for kilometers across the arid, blistered surface.
was a company”Space XThe debris heading to the moon was spotted, following the asteroid tracker Bill Gray identified the collision path last January.
Gray corrected his information a month later, saying that the “mysterious” object was not the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon rocket that was launched from the agency’s Deep Space Climate Observatory.NASA2015 year.
Gray said it was likely the third stage of a Chinese rocket that carried a sample capsule to the moon and returned in 2014.
However, Chinese officials said that the upper stage of the missile re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.
(Associated Press)
