A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.
A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash intoThe rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory .Since then, the second stage of the rocket, or booster, has been floating in what mathematicians call a chaotic orbit, astronomer Bill Gray told AFP Wednesday.
Gray appealed to the amateur astronomer community to join him in observing the booster, and his conclusion was confirmed. "There're at least 50 objects that were left in deep Earth orbit in the '60s, '70s and '80s that were just abandoned there. We didn't track them," he said.
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