The Irish Times·3 min read·medium
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
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Oliver Holmes
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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is believed to have collided with the moon at high speed. NASA expects the impact to create a new crater and plans to use the event to study artificial impacts and space debris tracking.
A four-tonne piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon at high speed, in a collision that poses no danger to Earth but was expected to blast out a new lunar crater.
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