https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
Posted on 07/30/2026 2:18:55 PM PDT by know.your.why
A discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour.
A roughly five-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket that sent two lunar landers to the moon is about to join them, but not on purpose.
On Aug. 5 at around 2:34 a.m. ET, the upper stage of a discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour near the crater Einstein on the western lunar limb, according to Bill Gray, who runs Project Pluto and develops software for tracking astronomical objects.
Gray was the first to calculate that the object would hit the moon and has been tracking it since. He also co-authored a study on the impact with an international team of researchers who recently made their work available on the open-access preprint arXiv server. The paper has not been peer-reviewed.
"We expect that to vaporize the booster, create a flash of light, probably a plume of ejecta -- dust, regolith, other stuff mixed into it -- and of course excavate a fresh crater on the lunar surface," Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the lead author of the study, told ABC News.
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THAT Rocket “Science” stuff is not trivial.
Stand aside...
Now we ask — where on the planet can we watch it live ?
We are a day past the full moon.
Moon rise tonight is 945p Eastern Time.
I think the moon won’t have risen on August 5th to be visible in the USA that overnight at 235am
It’ll be close.
Europe should be able to see it.
AI says: For August 5, 2026, moonrise times in Florida vary slightly by location but generally occur between 10:25 PM and 11:25 PM local time.
I think its totally wrong.
We don’t have observational Satellites to provide closeup videos?
If not, we need to get some.
Things are heating up wrt “Whitey, on the Moon”....
AI “truth” is rapidly fading as it “learns” from its interactions with the [New] Real World.
It was fun while it lasted as a quasi actual Oracle.
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