Chinese rocket hits the moon

The moon is being bombarded by space rocks all the time it gets hit by about 2800kg 6175lbs of meteoritic material each day but mostly of very small size he said. Discarded rocket part to hit Moon in hours say scientists.

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He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of a.

. 9 hours agoThis morning a piece of space junk smacked right into the far side of the moon. A group of students has confirmed that a rocket stage poised to hit the moon next month is from a Chinese Long March launcher not a SpaceX Falcon 9 as. A rocket part expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage.

A much-debated piece of space junk suspected to be part of a Chinese rocket that helped launch a 2014 lunar mission hit the far side of the moon scientists say. A Chinese rocket thats been in space for seven years not an American SpaceX Falcon 9 stage as previously reported will smash itself to pieces when it hits the far side of the moon on March 4. Space junk piece set to hit the moon likely from a Chinese rocket not SpaceX Astronomers noticed it was unlikely the piece of space junk was from the Falcon 9 launch in 2015 due to the gap.

Astronomers think that a rocket booster expected to hit the moon on Friday is Chinese though a Chinese official has denied this. 1 day agoThe team is estimating that the booster from the Chinese rocket will hit somewhere in or near the Hertzsprung crater on the moons far side the university noted. Three-tonne piece of space junk is likely to have left a 66ft crater after slamming into the lunar surface at.

1 day agoMoon crash. Discarded Chinese rocket HITS the moon. A piece of a rocket is expected to collide with the moon in a few days.

EST 1225 GMT Friday. The big event takes place March 4. Astronomers predict a Chinese rocket is on course to hit the moon next month.

Abandoned rocket hits the Moon - scientists. The debris may have come from a rocket like this one built by SpaceX. He ran the numbers again and concluded it was the third stage of a rocket from Chinas lunar mission Change 5-T1 launched in October 2014.

7 hours agoAn old rocket booster once thought to be the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 but now believed to be from the Chinese Change 5-T1 mission although China denies this slammed into the moons. Observers say the rocket part which is expected to hit the surface while traveling at roughly 5800 miles per hour is likely a piece of a Chinese spacecraft launched in 2014. The trash is believed to be a spent Long March 3C rocket booster from the launch of Change 5-T1 a Chinese experimental robotic spacecraft that lifted off in 2014The leftover component was estimated to have smashed into the Moon at.

More likely the object was from a Chinese lunar mission according to NASA. 5 hours agoAstronomers say a rocket likely hit the moon last night based on the law of gravity but experts told UPI on Friday there are currently no. 2 days agoSpace junk on collision course with the moon likely a Chinese rocket experts Space junk to smash into the far side of the moon at 5800mph on Friday and it may take weeks even months to.

A Long March-5 rocket carrying the Change 5 lunar mission lifts off from China in 2020. The moon is set to take a direct hit from a Chinese lunar mission rocket next month but it is well built to take that sort of abuse according to. The bus-sized third stage of a.

An out-of-control spent rocket believed to belong to China is expected to leave a 66ft-wide crater in the moon when it smashes into the lunar surface on Friday. The energy from. Parker said it was extremely unlikely that the rocket would hit near the Chinese rover Yutu 2 working on the far side of the moon where it recently investigated a.

2 hours agoA chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon according to a maker of astrometry software. 1 day agoThe discarded rocket stage will be traveling at a blistering 5771 mph 9288 kmh when it hits the Hertzsprung crater on the moons far side at 725 am. The debris a piece of a rocket about the size of a school bus had been floating in.

The rocket chunk is expected to hit the moon at about 5700 mph on.

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