The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015. hurtling in a chaotic orbit,
A nearly full moon hangs in the clear sky over the Lehigh Valley on Sept. 19, 2021, one night before the September harvest moon.Nearly seven years ago, a SpaceX rocket was launched as part of a mission to send a climate observation satellite 930,00 miles from Earth.
The rocket has run out of fuel and has been hurtling out of control in a chaotic orbit. Astronomers predict it’s on a collision course with the moon within weeks., the now-defunct 4.4-ton Falcon 9 booster was launched from Florida in February 2015. Bill Gray, a developer of software that tracks near-Earth objects, has been observing the out-of-control piece., the space junk had “made a close lunar flyby on January 5″ but is set for “a certain impact at March 4,” hitting the far side of the moon while traveling at a speed of 5,771 mph.
Berger noted while scientists are most interested in understanding “the presence of ice at the lunar poles,” the ability to observe “subsurface material ejected by the Falcon 9 rocket’s strike” could still reveal some valuable data.
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