A meteor hits the moon during the 2019 lunar eclipse.
Posted on 03/08/2022 11:16:05 AM PST by bitt
An unruly chunk of rocket debris is thought to have crashed into the moon.
Astronomers believe that the rocket piece, which experts have said originated in China, hit the lunar surface in the early hours of March 4.
We won’t know that it hit the moon for sure until two satellites that orbit the moon pass over the possible impact site.
These satellites could photograph any crater that resulted from the collision
The rocket was heading for a collision with the dark side of the moon so “live” coverage of the event wasn’t possible.
However, experts have now created a physics-based simulation video showing how the crash likely happened.
The video was posted to YouTube by AGI, An Ansys Company.
The caption simply explains: “Alternative wide view of the Chang’e booster impact with the Moon (sic) on March 4th, 2022.”
The rocket part was first spotted by Bill Gray, who writes the popular Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects.
He reported that the junk was a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage launched from Florida by Elon Musk’s team in February 2015.
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The video is ridiculous click bait. Sorry I fell for the fake. Should’ve read that they were unable to see it first.
I wondered what that was.
Whoever wrote this article needs to go back to school. The title and the first part directly contradicts the latter -
First, we are told it is a Chinese rocket. Then told it’s a piece of Chinese rocket space junk. Then at the end - it is a SpaceX Falcon booster... from the US.
So - what is the truth?
Mind was not blown and the recreation sucked.
A simulation. Yippee! Everything else is make believe today, so why not this?
A meteor hits the moon during the 2019 lunar eclipse.
Yep.
Lunar pollution is going to modify the orbit and slow the rotation of the moon, effecting (or is it affecting?) tides and migratory habits of all the animals!!!
We are all gonna die!!!!
I bet Hillary’s 30,000 emails were on that rocket.
I’ll wait for Scott Mandley to make a video
“...the dark side of the moon so “live” coverage of the event wasn’t possible”
That is not true just because it happened on the “dark” side of the moon. If a lunar orbiter was orbiting the moon and happened to be in the right spot at the right time, it could have captured the crash live. Transmission to earth would have been delayed, but it would have been live coverage even though we would see the tape delay.
Yeah, it may be picayune semantics, but reporters are so ignorant that I doubt he would know this.
Did it ring like a bell after it hit?
There is no dark side of the moon, really.
I just hope the debris didn’t crash into our National Park on the moon.
https://science.time.com/2013/07/20/national-parks-on-the-moon-its-an-excellent-idea/
effecting when it is physically moving, affecting when it is emotionally moving.
BINGO! Nothing real about that!
Good observations.
Chang’e is the ChiCom moon project. Named after their moon goddess.
So it could be that. Guy could’ve been wrong in saying it was SpaceX.
But who knows at this time.
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