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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
An aide comes into the Oval Office. “Mr. President, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?”
“Give me the bad news first.”
“OK. The Chinese have landed on the Moon.”
“That is bad. What’s the good news?”
“All of them.”
That would be "the far side of the moon". All of the moon sees the sun in a cyclic fashion every 28 days.
That reminds me: There is a restaurant on the moon where the food is really good; but, it has no atmosphere.
HEY! That helps me out alot! good hint....but right before armygedon....i wont be able to use it much before we all die!
LOL!
The moon is reputed to be occupied by an Intergalactic space federation. They won;t take kindly to Chinese incoming. Pursuing such logic, China’s space program is about to be dismantled .
I wonder if the moon seismically rang like a bell after thecollison like it has done previously?
Interesting fact about moon phases. Place a board on the grass at new moon until full moon, remove the board and the grass will be yellow but not dead and will regenerate. Now at full moon put a board on the grass until new moon, remove the board and the grass will be dead and will not regenerate.
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