AndronETalksNews
AndronETalksNews
BBC News
By Georgina Rannard
March 4, 2022
A discarded part of a rocket should have crashed into the Moon’s far side by now, say scientists who were expecting the impact at 12:25 GMT.
The three-tonne rocket part had been tracked for a number of years, but its origin was contested.
At first, astronomers thought it might have belonged to Elon Musk’s SpaceX firm, and then said it was Chinese – something China denies.
The effects of the impact on the Moon should have been minor.
The rocket stage would have dug out a small crater and created a plume of dust.
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