A spacecraft that will hit the lunar surface in early March does not come from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015, but corresponds to an object discarded by a Chinese ship, as rectified on Monday by astronomer Bill Gray.
Gray, who developed software to track the trajectory of near-Earth objects, was the leading astronomer to predict that the space object 2015-B belonging to SpaceX would impact the Earth satellite.
Without However, the expert corrected his own information after his colleague Jon Giorgioni notified him that the initially calculated trajectory did not match that of the Falcon 9 spacecraft, so there was a possibility that it was another object.
After reviewing files and background, Gray concluded that in fact the object that will impact the terrestrial satellite is the Chinese rocket 2014-065B, which had been sent in 2014 as part of the lunar mission Change’s5- T1. The detail of how he arrived at this new result was published on the Pluto Project website.
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Another crater for the Moon
It will not be the first time that a space object has crashed into the Moon, but it will be the first artifact of a ship that it hits it unintentionally, Gray explained.
According to experts, it is likely that this type of event will continue to occur as space debris is generated. The main criticism points to companies like SpaceX, owned by the South African billionaire Elon Musk, which generate a large amount of space debris that could potentially impact other celestial bodies.
The next impact on the lunar surface could generate a crater around 02 meters in diameter, although this would not cause significant damage to the satellite. In any case, what astronomers are sure of this time is that the space artifact in question will hit the Moon on March 4, 2022 at 12: 15UTC.
It is likely that These types of events continue to occur as space debris is generated. (Photo: Julia/Pexels)
With information from DW.
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