Falcon 9 won't slam into the moon, but something else will

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The new culprit may be part of a Chinese rocket launched in 2014. 🧐 engineering

SpaceX is no longer going to punch the moon. Instead, the China National Space Administration will — so to speak.

News that the upper stage of one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets is going to slam into the moon on March 4. The information first came to light thanks to a post from Bill Gray, the creator of the Project Pluto software that tracks near-Earth objects. It now turns out that it's likely a part of an old Chinese rocket that will hit the moon. With all theThrough their initial observations in 2015, Gray and other astronomers were under the impression that an unidentified object in the sky was headed for impact towards the moon, and that that impact would happen on March 4, 2022.

It would be a little strange if the second stage went right past the moon, while DSCOVR was in another part of the sky. There's always some separation, but this was suspiciously large," per Gray's

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