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Mystery rocket' that crashed into the Moon baffles NASA scientists
CHRON.COM ^
| 6/30/2022
| Ariana Garcia ,
Posted on 07/25/2022 10:03:40 AM PDT by bitt
So far, no space exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the rocket.
NASA has discovered the crash site of a "mystery rocket body" that collided with the Moon's surface earlier this year. The impact left behind a widespread "double crater," meaning it wasn't the average rocket.
However, since its crash landing, none of Earth's space-exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the mysterious projectile, leaving NASA scientists baffled as to who was behind its launch. New images shared on June 24 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the unusual impact site.
After a rocket body impacted the Moon last year, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to snap a surprising view of the impact site. Unexpectedly, the crater is actually two craters and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end: https://t.co/WtMAFrNkUw pic.twitter.com/hcoYPxlm8z — NASA 360 (@NASA360) June 27, 2022
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KEYWORDS: ccp; china; itisachineserocket; moon; noitdoesnt; rocket
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:03:40 AM PDT
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bitt
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:04:44 AM PDT
by
bitt
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To: bitt
Fireworks. Probably legal in Texas.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
Ikeon
(A man who would cut off his junk would gladly help someone cut off yours. )
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:06:14 AM PDT
by
Dog
(..."I'm just a cook....")
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:06:28 AM PDT
by
bitt
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To: bitt
Obviously a crashed UFO.
No one has identified it yet.../S
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:06:44 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:07:58 AM PDT
by
bitt
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To: bitt
It finally hit on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, a "complex" impact crater on the far side of the Moon.
Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn't that mean it was heading the other way?
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:09:29 AM PDT
by
loucon
(Vaccination by choice is freedom. Vaccination by mandate is ... well you know ... that thing ... )
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:10:22 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:11:16 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: loucon
Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn't that mean it was heading the other way? Not if it was in a decaying orbit...which is more likely that not.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:11:25 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
To: bitt
My thermostat setting is known but they lose jet liners and don’t know about rockets leaving Earth.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:11:31 AM PDT
by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: loucon
“Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn’t that mean it was heading the other way?”
No.
Orbital mechanics are weird.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:11:46 AM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: bitt
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:13:51 AM PDT
by
mfish13
(Elections have Consequences.)
To: bitt
It was from when Tommy Lee Jones flew the Soviet nuke satellite to the moon
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:15:20 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
But the moon has no atmosphere enough to cause orbital decay. So it has to be aliens!!!!
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:15:40 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; TalonDJ
Then that suggests it was in orbit around the moon and not the earth, or in an orbit around the earth at a greater distance than the moon or it flew across our solar system and made impact on the other side of our orbit around the sun.
I think it’s aliens. ;)
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:17:34 AM PDT
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loucon
(Vaccination by choice is freedom. Vaccination by mandate is ... well you know ... that thing ... )
To: Seruzawa
Umm...gravity?
More than likely, whatever it was, was shot down by the aliens who inhabit the DSOM.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:18:16 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
To: bitt
A) How do they know it was a rocket and not “something else”?
B) Why did it make 2 craters when it hit?
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:18:46 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: bitt
Obviously it was a failed launch from the secret Nazi moonbase.
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posted on
07/25/2022 10:20:31 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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